Topics

Transducers, measurands, transfer functions, resolution, noise and error budgets.

Sampling, filtering, spectra, feature extraction and denoising.

Analog front ends, ADCs, timing, logging and dataset hygiene.

References, span and offset, ageing, temperature compensation, recalibration.

Image formation, optics, exposure, colour science and machine vision.

Radiometry, emissivity, microbolometers and thermal measurement error.

NIR, Raman and hyperspectral methods for composition sensing.

Microphones, time-of-flight, resonance and acoustic signatures.

Load cells, strain gauges, bridges and mechanical compliance.

Accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and dead reckoning.

Electrochemical cells, selectivity, poisoning and response kinetics.

MOX and photoionisation arrays, aroma fingerprints, pattern recognition.

Enzymatic, affinity and cell-based sensing for safety and quality.

FMCW radar, time-of-flight lidar, point clouds and occupancy.

Features, embeddings, training regimes and evaluation for sensor data.

Kalman and factor-graph estimation, late fusion, learned multimodal models.

Quantisation, latency budgets, MCUs and NPUs at the sensor.

Microcontrollers, buses, interrupts, power and firmware discipline.

Actuation, control loops, manipulation and perception-action coupling.

Process control, reliability, ingress protection and validation.

Multimodal doneness, aroma, texture and thermal state in real kitchens.

NV centres, atom interferometry and where quantum limits actually help.

Reading, appraising and extracting value from primary literature.