Course group - GP.SEP.S8
The course is structured around a production project of capacitive sensors on flexible substrates for man-machine interface applications. The students have a large degree of freedom to define an innovative application. The course covers a large part of the necessary steps involved in producing a sensor: simulation and design on COMSOL (linked to the finite elements course), building a sensor within the ID-Fab space at the School, modelling/design and production of a signal conditioning and acquisition circuit.
The first sessions are intensive so as to provide the minimum knowledge and skills for carrying out the project. Thereafter autonomy and innovation are considered of prime importance in this course.
On completion of then course students will be capable of:
Producing and characterising signal data acquisition
The course consists of two teaching units: Finite Elements, directly linked with the COMSOL part of the Prototyping section. COMSOL is based on the mathematical method of finite elements to carry out simulations.
The course follows on from the Energy Transmission Sensors (ETS) course of semester 7. It provides practical and functional notions of what was covered in the ETS course.