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Instrumentation Systems

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An Introduction to Electrical Instrumentation and Measurement Systems

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Instrument systems refine, extend, or supplement human facilities and abilities to sense, perceive, communicate, remember, calculate or reason.[1] To relate this definition to practical terms means that any use of instruments constitutes an instrumentation system, since a suitable instrument or chain of instruments will always convert an unknown quantity into a record or display which human faculties can interpret.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Brighton Polytechnic, UK

    B. A. Gregory (Senior Lecturer Specialising in Electrical Instrumentation)

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Gregory, B.A. (1981). Instrumentation Systems. In: An Introduction to Electrical Instrumentation and Measurement Systems. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16482-0_9

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