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<title>Sensor Systems</title>
<cid>EPS.TEC2c</cid>
<sapsubmodule>P231-0159</sapsubmodule>
<bkey>epsm</bkey>
<ctypes>
<hours>2</hours>
<type>PA</type>
</ctypes>
<cp>2.5</cp>
<semester>1</semester>
<mandatory>no</mandatory>
<language>English</language>
<exam>Project presentation and documentation</exam>
<curriculum>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>EPS.TEC2c</cid>
<branch>European  Project Semester</branch>
<semester>1</semester>
<mandatory_tag>optional course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>IPS.TEC2c</cid>
<branch>International Project Semester</branch>
<semester>1</semester>
<mandatory_tag>optional course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
</curriculum>
<workload>
30 class hours (= 22.5 clock hours) over a 15-week period.The total student study time is 75 hours (equivalent to 2.5 ECTS credits).There are therefore 52.5 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.</workload>
<prerequisites>
</prerequisites>
<knowledge>TEC1: Introduction to Arduino</knowledge>
<prerequisitesfor>
</prerequisitesfor>
<convenor>Prof. Dr. Martin Löffler-Mang</convenor>
<convenor-person-key>mlm</convenor-person-key>
<lecturers>
<lecturer>Prof. Dr. Martin Löffler-Mang</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>mlm</lecturer-person-key>
</lecturers>
<objectives>After successfully completing the course, the students master the connection of standard sensors to a commercially available microcontroller (preferably Arduino). In addition, the students learned to carry out a small project. They are familiar with the brainstorming process for idea finding, can plan resources, divide up their project working hours and ultimately bill the project costs. They are able to work together in international and interdisciplinary teams, solve minor conflicts themselves, present their own project results and document them in writing.</objectives>
<content>The sensor applications are selected by the students themselves (&quot;Students design teaching&quot;) and implemented on their own responsibility. Typical example projects from the past were: anti-gravity, ultrasonic levitation, hand fly remote, LED hourglass, robot snake, smart parking (all 2020);
Car tracking, self-righting vehicle, earthquake simulator, goal celebrations, Lissajous figures, chicken guard (2019);
Sonic Vision, autofocus, ball throwing robot, ball sorting, vibration damper, Top Sonic, Dancing Steel (2018).</content>
<media>The students go through a moderated process in teams of 3-5 people:
1. Brainstorming to develop your own sensor application
2. Evaluation of the best ideas
3. Resource and cost estimation, schedule
4. Brief presentation in the plenum with assignment
5. Working phase with mentoring</media>
<literature>Hering, Martin, Storer: Physik für Ingenieure
Löffler-Mang: Optische Sensoren
Kneip: Introduction to Arduino</literature>
<offered>
</offered>
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