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16-722 Sensing and Sensors
The science and the art of making valid quantitative measurements in the face of nature's efforts to stop you -- and Sensors -- the devices, instruments, and algorithms that are your tools. The course will begin with Sensing, a seat-of-the-pants approach to measurement science: the things you want to measure, the quantities you actually can measure, what nature does to make your life hard when you actually try to do it, and the scientific principles and engineering tricks you need to outsmart her. I will try to help you develop a deep understanding of what are the fundamental natural limits toward which you should strive but beyond which it would be foolish to strive. We will smoothly transition from Sensing to Sensors: the gadgets you can buy and build to put what you learned about sensing into practice to solve real-world problems. The students will decide on a sensing domain we will explore collectively -- for example, instruments for biometric identification of people, or for planetary exploration, or for detecting improvised explosive devices -- and under my guidance they will individually or in small teams research the state-of-the art in a particular sub-domain. Students will report on their research in a series of lectures, lecture notes, and assignments. Students who do the assignments diligently and deliver application-motivated lectures that demonstrate they have internalized and utilized the underlying principles can expect to receive excellent grades. | |
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No sections available for semester Fall 2007.
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