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Analysis of dynamic measurements

Working Group 8.42

Overview

Dynamic measurements can be found in many areas of metrology and industry such as, for instance, in the measurement of time-dependent forces or accelerations. Methods from signal processing are often applied in the analysis of dynamic measurements. In many applications linear time-invariant systems are appropriate to model dynamic measurements, where the output signal is obtained as a convolution of the input signal and the measurement system’s impulse response. Input and output signal are not proportional to each other, and estimation of the system’s input signal from its output signal constitutes one important task in the analysis of dynamic measurements. Often digital filters are employed for this purpose. The evaluation of the uncertainty associated with the estimated input signal is particularly important from a metrological perspective.

Typical dynamic measurement with time-dependent errors in the output signal caused by the dynamic behavior of the measurement system.

Typical examples are measurements of mechanical quantities as, for example, force, torque and pressure. Further examples are oscilloscope measurements for the characterization of high speed electronics, hydrophone measurements for the characterization of medical ultrasound devices, the spectral characterization of radiation sources, spectral color measurements and camera-aided temperature measurements.

 

Research

One focus of PTB‘s Working Group 8.42 is the development of methods for the estimation of the input signal from the output signal when the dynamic behavior of the measurement system has been characterized. This includes the development of procedures for the evaluation of the uncertainty associated with the estimated input signal. Another focus is the development of methods for the analysis of dynamic calibration measurements aimed at determining the dynamic behavior of a measurement system.

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Contribution to book

Title: Uncertainty evaluation for traceable dynamic measurement of mechanical quantities: A case study in dynamic pressure calibration
Author(s): T. J. Esward, C. Matthews, S. Downes, A. Knott, S. Eichstädt and C. Elster
Editor: F. Pavese, M. Bär, J.-R. Filtz, A. B. Forbes, L. Pendrill, K. Shirono
Year: 2012
Volume: Advanced Mathematical & Computational Tools in Metrology and Testing IX  
Series: Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences
Edition: 84
Chapter: 19
Pages: 143-151
World Scientific New Jersey
Keywords: dynamic pressure, calibration, dynamic measurement
Tags: 8.42, Dynamik, Unsicherheit

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