Course detail

Applied Electronics and Electric Actuators

FSI-VAP Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester

The subject is focused on a specific issue focused on the use of electronics and electric drives in automation. Attention is paid to AC power sources, passive electrical and electronic components, operational amplifiers and semiconductor converters. Considerable emphasis is placed on the area of ​​electric drives, where the student gets to know individual types, their properties and use.  

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Miloš Hammer, CSc.

Department

Institute of Automation and Computer Science

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

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

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-AIŘ-P: Applied Computer Science and Control, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 4 credits, compulsory

Programme C-AKR-P: , Lifelong learning
branch CLS: , 4 credits, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. AC voltage source. Passive electrical elements.

  2. Semiconductor elements in electronic circuits.

  3. Operational amplifiers.

  4. Integrated circuits for digital technology.

  5. Basic semiconductor converters. Distribution. Rectifiers.

  6. Pulse converters. Inverters.

  7. Frequency converters. Microprocessor control systems.

  8. Definition of electric drive. Advantages and disadvantages. Types of powered work machines.

  9. Kinematics and mechanics of electric drives. Warming and energetics of electric drives.

  10. Drives with DC motors and permanent magnets. Regulated drives.

  11. Drives with universal single-phase commutators.

  12. Drives with asynchronous and synchronous motors.

  13. Special types of electric drives. Stepper motors. Linear motors. Mechanical components of electric drives.




Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Introduction to computer support for design, drawing and analysis of electronic circuits

  2. Design and analysis of DC power supply

  3. Two-position control

  4. Regulators with pulse output

  5. PID controller with operational amplifiers

  6. Special problems of electronics in automation

  7. Filters and filtering of analog signals

  8. Propagation of electrical signals on the bus (on the line)

  9. Multiplexer, demultiplexer, serial data transmission

  10. Application of measuring instruments

  11. Controlled drive with asynchronous motor and frequency converter

  12. DC motor speed control