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Syllabus for

 Academic year
SSY066 - Industrial automation  
 
Syllabus adopted 2014-02-18 by Head of Programme (or corresponding)
Owner: TKAUT
7,5 Credits
Grading: TH - Five, Four, Three, Not passed
Education cycle: First-cycle
Major subject: Automation and Mechatronics Engineering
Department: 32 - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING


Teaching language: Swedish
Block schedule: D

Course module   Credit distribution   Examination dates
Sp1 Sp2 Sp3 Sp4 Summer course No Sp
0112 Examination 4,5c Grading: TH   4,5c   15 Jan 2016 am Konf   04 Apr 2016 pm EKL   22 Aug 2016 pm M  
0212 Laboratory 3,0c Grading: UG   3,0c    

In programs

TKAUT AUTOMATION AND MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING, Year 3 (compulsory)

Examiner:

Docent  Petter Falkman


Replaces

ESS032   Control and communication system SSY065   Industrial automation


Eligibility:

In order to be eligible for a first cycle course the applicant needs to fulfil the general and specific entry requirements of the programme(s) that has the course included in the study programme.

Course specific prerequisites

Basic course in programming.

Aim

This course aims to provide a deeper insight and understanding of the challenges engineers face when developing automation systems. An important component of an automation system is the discrete and logic control systems. These are the main focus of this course. Using mathematical modelling and practical programming techniques, the student will be able to specify and develop discrete and logical control.

Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)

  • Develop a model / specification for a logic control system for industrial automation using operations, states and transitions,
  • Account for the differences and similarities between the propositional and predicate logic
  • Implement state and transitions using among others graphs
  • Describe the challenge of developing logic control in industry related to combinatorial and sequential control,
  • From a specification be able to implement logical control using PLC programming,
  • Implement optimization algorithms for simple discrete optimization,Understand and make tradeoffs in discrete optimization in terms of sustainability,
  • Give an account of the stochastic behavior of automation systems and the need for simulation,
  • Describe and consider the problem of distributed control, and how the robot's controller differs from a PLC,
  • From a specification implement a robot program,
  • Explain how a physical industrial control system is built and the function of its different components and protocols;
  • Model a problem and solve it using programming

Content

The course consists of three different parts. Lectures, hand in assignments, laboratory exercise and programming assignments. During the lectures, the course's various parts will be discussed. By means of assignments, labs and programming assignments deepened understanding of logic control and automation.

Organisation

The course includes lectures, assignments, labs and programming assignments.

Literature

All materials will be distributed via the course website


Examination

Written exam and passed compulsory parts required for final grade.

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