Course detail

Automatic Control Equipment

FSI-VPR Acad. year: 2023/2024 Winter semester

The course deals with instrumentation used for construction of control loops aimed at automatic control of technological processes. Students will get a knowledge of sensors, elements of signal transmission and transformation, controllers, and actuators. Instrumentation with electrical and pneumatic transmission of signals is included in the course. Students will test the acquired knowledge on simple tasks in the practical part of the course.

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Pavel Škrabánek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Automation and Computer Science

Learning outcomes of the course unit

At the end of the course, the students will be able to operate, adjust, and design automatic control circuits using electrical and fluid instrumentation.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of automatic control, mathematics and physics. All at the level of completed courses in the framework of earlier university studies.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught in the form of lectures, which are an explanation of the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Teaching is complemented by laboratory exercises, where the theoretical knowledge gained from lectures is practically verified. Where possible, lectures will be organized for practitioners and field trips to companies dealing with activities related to the subject matter.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

To acquaint students with electrical and pneumatic instrumentation used in automatic control circuits in the terms of its principle, function, and utilization.

At the end of the course, the students will be able to operate, adjust, and design automatic control circuits using electrical and pneumatic instrumentation.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at lectures is recommended, attendance at seminars is required. It is at the teacher`s discretion to decide how to make up for missed seminars.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-STR-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
branch AIŘ: Applied Computer Science and Control, 5 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Pavel Škrabánek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

A) Introduction



  • introduction,

  • general properties of automatic control instrumentation.


B) Instrumentation with electrical transmission of signals



  • sensors,

  • instrumentation for signal transformation,

  • controllers,

  • actuators.


C) Instrumentation with pneumatic transmission of signals



  • basic pneumatic elements,

  • basic pneumatic circuits.

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Tomáš Hůlka, Ph.D.
doc. Ing. Zdeněk Němec, CSc.

Syllabus

1. lessons with examples of control equipments
2. laboratory test with measuring of relay characteristics
3-6. lessons of identification of regulated system
7-12. lessons with examples of different regulated loops
13. discussion, summary.