Advanced Digital Control Systems
Duration
- One semester
Contact hours
- 100
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Aims and objectives
Courses with unit
Associate Degree of Applied Technologies (AB-APPTEC)Unit information in detail
- Assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Assessment
| Assessments | |||
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Case study | Individual | 10-20% | 3,5 |
| Progressive Test | Individual | 20-30% | 1,3,4 |
| Project | Group | 40-60% | 2,3,4,5 |
| Portfolio | Group | 10-20% | 2,3,4,5 |
General skills outcomes
- Communication Skills
- Cognitive Skills
- Ability to Tackle Unfamiliar Problems
- Initiative and enterprise Skills
- Teamwork Skills
- Self-management Skills
- Creative Skills
Content
Maths
• Complex number systems
• Fourier Series( Euler’s Theorem)
Control Systems
• Introduction to feedback and control
• Stability and performance
• Linear and non-linear systems analysis
• Transfer functions
• Open loop and closed loop control Systems
Smart sensors and signal conditioning
• Definition and applications of smart sensors( RFID etc)
• Communications protocols used by smart sensors( SPI,I2C,WiFi,Ethernet,CAN,OPC-UA)
• Testing and calibration of smart sensors
• Installation, Specifications, operation of smart sensors.
• Interfacing and commissioning
• Signal conditioning
· Noise
· Bandwidth
· Error correction
· Resolution
· Accuracy
· DSP
• DSP fundamentals
• Introduction to Fourier
• Introduction to filters( FIR and IIR)
Pneumatics & Hydraulics
• Physical fundamentals of pneumatics
• Function and application of pneumatic components
• Theory of pneumatic sensors and actuators.
• Representation of motion sequences and switching
• Drawing pneumatic circuit diagrams and symbols in accordance with standards
• Pneumatic Logical functions
• Time-dependent control systems with time delay valve
• Pressure-dependent control systems with pressure sequence valves
• Fault finding in simple pneumatic control systems
• Safety regulations
Electro- pneumatic Components
• Push button switches NO/NC
• Limit switches
• Solenoid directional control valves
• Relays
Hydraulics
• Hydraulic fluid power system concepts
• Calculations of pressure and power requirements
• Hydraulic pump units and pump flow
• Pressure control using flow control valves, pilot operated check valves, accumulators, relief valves, regeneration, pressure reducing, pressure sequence, and counterbalance.
Vision systems
• Introduction to different types of machine vision system
• Image Acquisition(Optics ,Sensors, optical signal conditioning, lighting)
• Vision System installation and calibration
• Image Processing
• Image Formation, measurement and analysis using vision software
Application of vision system Guidance, Identification, Gauging, InspectionStudy resources
- References.