UNCERTAINTY AS THE COMPONENT OF THE MEASUREMENT RESULT IN MICROPROCESSOR INSTRUMENTS

Romuald Masnicki, Janusz Mindykowski

Abstract

A traditional description of the measurement result obtained with the use of a definite measurement instrument is complemented by the information about its accuracy on the basis of technical specifications given by its producer or verified in checking and legalisation procedures. The paper presents the premises resulting from currently available technical possibilities, which show that it is purposeful to complement the set of functions realised in a microprocessor instrument with additional properties enabling the instrument user to access the information about the uncertainty of the measurement result. The configuration of the measurement instrument, which enables an access, apart from the measurement result, to the information about the uncertainty as the component of the result, is presented. The conditions referring to the set and programme configuration of the instrument, indispensable for the realisation of the proposed idea, are pointed out. The main ideas of the presented paper will be also found in the authors’ work.

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TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities

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