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Industrial automation and programmable logic controllers - course description

General information
Course name Industrial automation and programmable logic controllers
Course ID 06.2-WE-ELEKTP-IAPLC-Er
Faculty Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Automatics
Field of study Electrical Engineering
Education profile academic
Level of studies First-cycle Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2019/2020
Course information
Semester 6
ECTS credits to win 5
Course type optional
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr hab. inż. Jacek Kaniewski
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Lecture 30 2 - - Exam
Laboratory 30 2 - - Credit with grade
Project 15 1 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

- familiarize students with the issues of automation and PLC controllers

- shaping basic skills in the design of industrial automation systems

- familiarize students with the PLC programming principles

Prerequisites

Mathematical analysis, algebra, methods and programming techniques

Scope

Introduction. Basic terms. Control principles. Compensation principle. The principle of open regulation. The principle of feedback. The input-output description. Laplace transformations. Block diagrams and their transformation. Time characteristics of linear systems. Impulse characteristics. Step characteristics. Frequency characteristics. Amplitude-phase characteristic. Amplitude characteristic. Phase characteristic. Logarithmic characteristics. Stability of continuous systems. Hurwitz criterion. Routh Criterion. Michajlov Criterion. Nyquist criterion. Logarithmic stability criterion. Phase plane method. Controlling and observability of dynamic systems. Quality of control systems. Static and astatic systems. Evaluation of dynamic properties of the adjustment system. Regulators. Proportional controller. Integral controller. Proportional-Integral Controller. Derivative controller. Proportional-derivative controller. Proportional-Integral-Derivative Regulator. Regulator with inertia.  Proportional regulator in automatic control system. Integral regulator in automatic adjustment system. Regulator with saturation. Asymmetric regulators. binary and tri-state regulators. Design of industrial adjustment systems. PLCs. Introduction. Building PLCs. Programming PLCs. PLCs from SIEMENS (S7-1200, Logo), ALLEN BRADLEY, MITSUBISHI (FX series, Alpha).  Visualization of industrial processes. Communication in distributed industrial systems with PLCs.

Teaching methods

Lecture: problem lecture, conventional lecture

Laboratory: laboratory exercises

Project: consultations

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture - getting a positive grade from the exam

Laboratory - get positive grades from all lab exercises.

Project - getting positive partial evaluations from all project tasks

Composition of the final grade = lecture: 40% + laboratory: 30% + project: 30%

Recommended reading

1. Farid Golnaraghi, Benjamin C. Kuo "Automatic Control Systems", John Wileys and sons, 2015

2.  Kaczorek T. "Teoria sterowania i systemów", WN PWN, Warszawa, 1993

Further reading

1. Neal Babcock "Beginner’s Guide To PLC Programming. How to Program a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)"

Notes


Modified by dr hab. inż. Radosław Kłosiński, prof. UZ (last modification: 27-10-2019 18:37)