Frequency Domain Sensors and Frequency Measurement Techniques

Abstract:

Getting fast and accurate information is of paramount importance for most monitoring, data acquisition, and monitoring systems; there are sensors that transform their input into a frequency domain output, this kind of sensors are known as Frequency Domain Sensors (FDS); when the value of the output frequency is measured in a FDS, the value of the sensor’s input (measurand) can be calculated, that is why the frequency measurement in the output of FDS is critical for using such sensors. In this work different kinds of resonant sensors (FDS) are reviewed; also frequency measurement techniques are explored; finally a novel frequency measurement method is proposed and analyzed for resolution improvement in frequency domain sensors.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 756)
• Pages: 575-584
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.756.575
• Online since: April 2015
• Authors: Fabian N. Murrieta-Rico*, Vitalii Petranovskii, Oleg Yu. Sergiyenko, Daniel Hernandez-Balbuena, Alexey Pestryakov, Vyra Tyrsa
• Keywords: FDS, Frequency Measurement, Sensors

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