Sensors and Digital Twins

Recommended Prerequisites

Numerical methods; Informatics.

Teaching Methods

- Expository lessons of the different course contents completed with theoretical-practical classes for problem solving.

Learning Outcomes

Module A

- Understand the global architecture of digital data acquisition systems, identify and characterize the different tasks and functions of a data acquisition system.

- Identify the physical and technical limitations of data acquisition systems and the associated instrumentation.

- Develop the ability to specify sensor elements and their suitability for the acquisition process.

- Learn basic concepts of data communication networks.

- Use basic data analysis tools for data processing in the scope of data acquisition systems.

Module B

- Gain knowledge about control and monitoring by computer-based algorithms; and requirements for their functionality and management

- Learn basis concepts about networks and communication

- Develop the ability to create, describe and characterize Digital twins of buildings and structures

- Learn basic conceots of facility management of buildings

- Understand the applications of urban digital twins and how they can be used in planning.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

MODULE A – INSTRUMENTATION AND SENSORS.

- Review of electronics fundamentals and programming

- Concepts of instrumentation systems: Input / output, gain, filtering, sensitivity, resolution, quantification, coding, transduction, linearity.

- Sensors and transducers. Principles of operation, types and characteristics.

- Actuators and interaction with the environment.

- Control systems for electronic instrumentation systems. Loops and decision making.

- Integration of instrumentation, consumption and connectivity systems.

 

MODULE B - DIGITAL TWINS

- Introduction to cyber-physical systems

- Communication and Networks

- Digital Twins for Buildings and Building Systems

- Facility management

- Urban Digital Twins.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Módulo A

1. Instrumentação e Medidas, Pedro M. Ramos e Pedro Silva Girão, Lidel Edições Técnicas, 2022, ISBN 978-989-752-771-5

2. Sensores e Actuadores , Francisco A. C. Alegria, IST Press, 2021, ISBN 978-972-8481-80-1

3. Apontamentos e Apresentações de autoria dos docentes

Módulo B

1. Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems, Rajeev Alur, ISBN: 978-0262029117

2. Digital Twin and the Construction Industry: Dissected Conceptual Lenses, Benefits, Opportunities, Challenges, Capacity Building and Annotated Paths, Oliver Barima, ISBN: 978-1-68507-340-4

3.Building Industrial Digital Twins, Shyam Varan Nath, Pieter van Schalkwyk, Dan Isaacs, ISBN: 9781839219078

4. The Facility Management Handbook, Kathy Roper, Richard Payant,

5. Apontamentos e apresentações de autoria dos docentes.