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Entrance Test 2010 Name:: Mechatronics and Sensor Systems Technology

This document contains a practice exam for a mechatronics and sensor systems technology master's course. It consists of 9 questions testing skills in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, control theory, and programming. The questions cover topics such as calculating energy transfer for an electric charge moving through an electric field, deriving expressions for the frequency and effective value of a tachometer generator, solving differential equations, analyzing circuits with resistors, capacitors and inductors, explaining the operation of a polarity reverser circuit, and writing programs to calculate averages and sort lists of numbers.

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Entrance Test 2010 Name:: Mechatronics and Sensor Systems Technology

This document contains a practice exam for a mechatronics and sensor systems technology master's course. It consists of 9 questions testing skills in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, control theory, and programming. The questions cover topics such as calculating energy transfer for an electric charge moving through an electric field, deriving expressions for the frequency and effective value of a tachometer generator, solving differential equations, analyzing circuits with resistors, capacitors and inductors, explaining the operation of a polarity reverser circuit, and writing programs to calculate averages and sort lists of numbers.

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Masters Course

Mechatronics and Sensor Systems Technology

Date:

Entrance Test 2010 Name:

Time to work on the test: 120 min helps: no helps


(Answer the questions on separate concept paper)

Mathematics combined with Physics

1. In a orthonormal coordinate system a homogenous electric field E = (10 V/m, 0, 0) is existing. An electric
charge +q = 1 C moves from the starting point P0(1m, 4m, 6m) via P1 (2m, 2m, 4m) to the end point
P2 ( -3m, 1m, 2m).
1.1 Calculate the amount of energy which will be exchanged on the two paths. Between which components
of the system is the energy exchanged? Calculate the energy transfer if q is moved directly from P0 to P2?
1.2 Then the charge q is moved along a circle with radius R = 10m from P2 back to the starting point Po.
Which energy is now exchanged between which components of the system?

2. The rotor of the shown tachometer generator (dynamo, Fig.1) rotates with n
cycles/sec. The coils (windings N and area A each coil) are connected in series.
The output is a sine voltage.
2.1 Derive the expression for the frequency f of the sine signal?
2.2 Derive the expression for the effective value of the rectified output?
Fig. 1

3. A resistor R and in series an inductor L form a closed loop. At t = 0s an electric current I0.is running in it.
3.1 Derive the differential equation (diff.equ.) for the current I(t).
3.2 Solve the diff. equ. and find the general expression for I(t). Sketch I(t) qualitatively..

Electrical Basics

4. A signal Uin with a step function from 0V to 5V is applied


to the input of a black box. The inner circuit of the black box
has four positions (see Fig. 2). Each position can be shorted (s,)
open (o), a resistor (R), a capacitor (C) or an inductive coil (L).
Fig. 2
Example: A simple resistive voltage divider is: A = R, B = o , C = R, D = o

4.1. What is inside if the output is like in Fig. 3 Uout/V

4.2. What is inside if the output is like in Fig. 4

Fig. 3

Uout/V

Fig. 4

see overleaf
5. A light dependent resistor has a value of 3k without
light and 1k with maximum illumination. It should be
connected to a high impedance A/D converter input with
an input voltage range between 0 and 2V and a
conversion accuracy of 10 bits as shown in Fig. 5.
5.1 Calculate the values for U1 and U2 to get 0V at the
ADC without light and 2V with full illumination. .Sketch
the circuit with the polarity of the voltages and the
potentials versus ground. Fig. 5
5.2 Which relative accuracy can be achieved in the measurement of the illumination?
5.3 The detected light is chopped with a frequency of 20Hz. Which condition has to be fulfilled by the
ADC?

6. Describe the operation principle of the polarity reverser of Fig.6.


The voltage USW has which shape? In which way does the output
voltage UA of the input signal UE depend on the voltage USW. Why?
(Hint: For the on-state the resistivity of the FET is 0)

Fig. 6
.Control Theory

7.1 Determine the Laplace transform L() of the step function (t) = 0 for t< 0 and
(t) = 1 for t 0.
7.2 Determine the Laplace transform L(f) of the function f(t) = 0 for t< 0 and f(t) = exp(-at)
for t 0.
7.3 Now you can find the solution y(t) (for t 0) of the differential equation y + T y& = x for the
input x(t) = (t) and the initial condition y(0) = 0. {Hint: L(dy/dt) =sL(y) y(0)}
7.4 Give an example of a technical realization of such a system.

Programming
8. Please write a C/C++ or Java program that asks the user for 20 floating point measured values and stores
these in an array. The program should use this array to calculate and output the average and standard (root
mean square) deviation.

9. In a memory a list A of numbers is stored organized by an index number i = 0 .. length(A) - 1. The


following algorithm sorts the numbers according to their magnitude.

procedure bubbleSort( A : list of numbers ) defined as:


do
swapped := false
for each i in 0 to length(A) - 2 inclusive do:
if A[i] > A[i+1] then
swap( A[i], A[i+1] )
swapped := true
end if
end for
while swapped
end procedure

Used structures:
do something while variable is true (do .. while); load a variable with a value (:=);
do something repeated controlled by an index number running from a start to a stop value (for .. end for)
do something if a Boolean condition is true (if .. end if); swap two values of an indexed list (swap)

Assume the numbers 5, 1, 4, 2, 8 as list values with index 0,1, ..4.


9.1 Write down the list values for all actions of the algorithm.
9.2. What is the worst case sequence of the given numbers?
9.3 Sketch a flow chart of the given algorithm.

Good luck for you! (B. Deppisch 21.7.2010)

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