How to remove DC offset from signals in Python using UliEngineering

You can easily remove the DC offset (mean value) from a signal using the UliEngineering Python library:

remove_mean.py
import numpy as np
from UliEngineering.SignalProcessing.Utils import *

# Create a signal with DC offset
signal = np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]) + 10.0

# Remove the DC offset
signal_centered = remove_mean(signal)

print(f"Original signal mean: {np.mean(signal)}")
print(f"Centered signal mean: {np.mean(signal_centered)}")
print(f"Centered signal: {signal_centered}")

Example output

remove_mean_output.txt
Original signal mean: 12.0
Centered signal mean: 0.0
Centered signal: [-2. -1.  0.  1.  2.]

The remove_mean() function subtracts the arithmetic mean from the signal, effectively centering it around zero.


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