Thursday, April 5, 2012

Different types of transducer and their application in Engineering

Transducer over view

Technically a transducer
be thought to an electronic instrument built up of a number of components capable of performing some kind of measurement and recording the result. And device which is capable of making some measurement should have following parts which can be listed below as:
1. Input device
2. Signal conditioning and processing device
3. And an output device

In these three parts the input devices performs the function of receiving the quantity which going to be measured, called measurand, and converts it into some other analogous form generally electrical from and hands it over to the second stage i.e. signal processing section where some operations are performed upon this input signal like:

  • Amplification
  • Attenuation
  • Filtration
  • Modulation/modification into some other acceptable form

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Me and my Motobike- the beginner to expert love story


From 6 year now I have lived about 96 kilometres away from my home. And the daily distance I had to travel comes about 200 kilometres. And like all Indians, from a few years I have been feeling the pinch of rising petrol prices. A major portion of my salary was going in to the tank of my car rather than my pocket.

This was when I decided to buy a motorbike for myself to reduce my monthly expenditure on petrol.  I researched on what would be the best bike for a beginner. It was not that I did not know how to drive a bike; it was just that almost 20 year had passed since I had driven one of those beauties. I felt that a starter bike was the best bet to learn safely before I go for a better bike. This started my visit to various dealer shops to look at the various beginner models that were suggested to me by my friends and websites. I was interested in some beginner bikes which though were easy to ride but were still a little uncommon so that I had something to be proud of my start up bike. Some of these bikes were Kawasaki Vulcan 500 LTD, Suzuki GS500F, Suzuki SV650S, Hyosung GT250R, Virago 250 and a few more. After going through test drives and reviews online, I found Virago 250 which with its v-twin engine felt and sounded good. After searching a while I found a second hand Virago 250 with a fresh college passout. This college student lives around 50 kilometres away from my home and due to some reasons the pick-up truck that I had ordered for was due to some mechanical problems not available. So I drove down there with my wife and then I had to drive the bike back home. I took me a few tries to get my hands on the gear control but I was able to control it soon enough. I rode to my home with a pillion at my back to block a fall in case the bike was slanting. I reached home without any mishappening though I must add, it took me a lot of heart to start the ride but after half the path I actually enjoyed the ride.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Details about what is Anthropomimetic robotic technology

Advancement in robotic technology has gone so high that even routine jobs in industries have been replaced by robots. However the initial cost for set of such robotic workers in industries is costlier but the outcome is much more beneficial as compared to the man labor.
Because of its extent of resemblance with the human it reduced the man to machine gab and tries to bring both at the same level in many spheres of industrial and professional lives.



OVER VIEW OF ANTHROPOMIMETIC MACHINES

In our following discussion we will be concerned at a new class of the robotics which is Anthropomimetic Machines which are characterized by their ability of responding to external stimuli mentally and capability of performing the allotted task.

Types of electronic display devices and their advantages and disadvantages

In this article I have given detailed description about different types of display devices and their working along with their comparison with other display devices.


Display Devices

Display device, that is used to display some visible massage, may have several types depending upon several criteria. One criterion for their classification is formatting of the display, thus there can be two type of display devices based upon the format are:
1. Planer devices
2. Non-planer devices