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Industrial automation equipment - course description

General information
Course name Industrial automation equipment
Course ID 06.0-WE-AutP-IAE-Er
Faculty Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Automatics
Field of study Automatic Control and Robotics
Education profile academic
Level of studies First-cycle Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2022/2023
Course information
Semester 5
ECTS credits to win 4
Course type obligatory
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
Laboratory 30 2 - - Credit with grade
Lecture 15 1 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Skills and competencies needed to choice industrial automation elements and equipment. Skills and competencies needed to design and model basic pneumatic and electropneumatic control systems.

Prerequisites

Physics for engineers, Fundamentals of electrical engineering, Fundamentals of electronics,

Scope

Introduction. Control tasks and functional elements of control systems. Types of industrial automation components and equipment and their specifications. Specifications of electronic and electrical automation components and equipment. Relays, reed relays, bimetallic overload relays, controllers. Sensors and transducers.

Controllers. Controller types, properties and specifications. Self-actuated controllers. PID controllers, on-off controllers. Digital controllers. Control specification and performance indices. PID controller tuning methods.

Electrical actuators. Actuator types and their specifications. Advantages and disadvantages of electrical actuation. Electrical servo motors and actuators. Basic principles of AC and DC servo motors and stepper motors.

Pneumatic automation equipment. Pneumatic components, their types and classification. Pneumatic symbols. Air preparation units, pressure regulators, filters, and lubricators.

Pneumatic actuators. Types, specifications, and applications. Pneumatic motors: types, specifications, and applications.

Pneumatic valves. Air flow and air pressure control valves: directional control valves, flow control valves, shutoff valves, throttle valves, non-return valves, pressure control valves, air distribution valves. Blocks of valves and valve islands.

Pneumatic system designing. Design calculations for pneumatic systems. Designing, modeling and simulation of pneumatic and electropneumatic circuits using FluidSim 4 Pneumatics software.

Teaching methods

Lecture: problem lecture, conventional lecture

Laboratory: laboratory exercises

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 test

Laboratory - get positive grades from all lab exercises.

Recommended reading

1.      P. Croser, F. Ebel,  Pneumatics. Basic Level. Festo Didactic GmbH & Co., Denkendorf, 2000

2.      A.K. Gupta, Industrial Automation and Robotics: An Introduction. Mercury Learning & Information, 2013

3.      G. Prede, D. Scholz, Electropneumatics. Basic Level. Festo Didactic GmbH & Co., Denkendorf, 2002

4.      J. Stenerson, Industrial Automation and Process Control. Prentice Hall. 2002

Further reading

1.      S. Medida, Pocket Guide on Industrial Automation. For Engineers and Technicians. IDC Technologies, 2007 (www.PAControl.com)

2.      FluidSim 4 Pneumatics. Users Guide. Festo Didactic GmbH & Co., Denkendorf, 2007

Notes


Modified by dr hab. inż. Wojciech Paszke, prof. UZ (last modification: 11-04-2022 09:05)