25791: Industrial Control
Course Name: Industrial Control
Course Number: 25791
Prerequisite(s): 25411 (Linear Control Systems) or 25752 (Linear Control Systems and Lab)
Co-requisite(s): 25403 (Control Systems Lab)
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Last Revision: Winter 2020

Description
The purpose of this course is to familiarize with the basics of industrial control and its applications.
 
Syllabus:
  • Introduction to Industrial Processes: Industrial Processes, Types of IO signals, Reference Signals
  • Industrial Control System Structures/configurations: Degrees of Freedom Analysis, Control System Structures, Interconnected Systems, Non-linear Elements
  • Grey Box Identification: Static Modelling, Modelling First and Second-order systems with and without delay, Integrating Processes
  • Black Box Identification: Introduction to Data-Driven Methods, Least Squares Identification, Recursive Least Squares Identification
  • Closed-loop Identification: Frequency response methods, Ziegler-Nichols frequency method, Feedback Relay Tuning, Describing Function Analysis
  • Industrial PID Controllers: Discrete Controller Implementation, Position and Velocity PID forms, Saturation, and Integral Wind-up
  • Performance Assessment: Control System Performance Assessment Methods, Integral Squared Error, Integral Absolute Error
  • PID Experimental Tuning Methods: Ziegler-Nichols time domain tuning method, Cohen and Coon tuning method
  • PID Model-Based Tuning: Direct Synthesis methods, Internal Model Reference Tuning
  • Industrial Automation Systems: Introduction to DCS, Introduction to PLC, Automation Hardware, Programming Methods, Ladder Programming, Simple Program Development, Example of Applied PLC codes
References:
  • K. J. Astrom and T.Hagglund, PID controller: Theory, Design, and Tuning, International Society for Measurement and Control, 1995
  • D. E. Seborg, T. F. Edgar and D.A. Mellichamp, Process Dynamics and Control, John Wiley and Sons, 2004
  • G. Stephanopoulos, Chemical Process Control: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 1984
  • J. J. E. Slotine and W. Li, Applied Nonlinear Control, Prentice Hall, 1991


 
Last Update: 2024-05-06