Part 1 | Acquisition

This part starts with a presentation on data acquisition systems and treats following subjects:

• digital and analogue sensors
• embedded PC hardware (PC104)
• real-time OS (RTAI)

The practical part consists in a simple data acquisition, based on a standard PC parallel port, giving the attendees the possibility of making their first practical experiences.

Pre-Requisits:

• technical interests
• C knowledge is useful /helpful

Part 2 | Storage

This part starts with a presentation covering the following topics:

• principles of data storage (flat file, database systems)
• an introduction to relational database models (ER-Model)
• structured query language (SQL)
• database administration tools
• standard database interfaces (ODBC, JDBC,..)

In the practical part a database is designed, based on the data acquired in the first part of the tutorial.

Part 3 | Analysing

This part starts with a presentation covering the following points:

• visualisation tools (gnuplot,[xm]grace,..)
• data analysing software (R, octave, ...)

The practical part gives the attendees the possibility to make their first experiences with gnuplot and the statistical (mathematical) tool R.

Pre-Requisits:

• basic mathematical knowledge
• basic programming knowledge (what is an if statement, a for loop ...)

Part 4 | Village

In order to give the attendees the possibility to get answers to more specific questions about the presented material and to further exercise the presented applications this part of the tutorial is organized as an open session held at the exhibition village.