Learning Outcomes
This course helps developing basic automation skills for undergraduate students of engineering programs and graduate students in managerial programs. We discuss automatization tasks for few real objects: crane, electrical furnace, water level control. The first step will be a simple logic controller, after that we will discuss adjustment of PID controller. The next step will help you to understand why control system usually does not work the way it was promised to: we will study nonlinearities and time-delays. As a practical result of the course we offer building your own control system with usage of Arduino platform.
LO1. Understand and differentiate basic models of control systems: linear systems, nonlinear systems, time-delay systems, time-varying systems.
LO2. Understand basic control schemes and algorithms: feedback control, PID controller, relay controller.
LO3. Ability to optimize and adjust controller with given structure.
LO4. Understand analitical methods for estimation of control system stability.
LO5. Experinence of building automatic control systems with usage of Arduino platform or Atmel 8-bit controllers.
LO6. Develop managerial skills for automatization projects development: problem identification, seeking for the better solution, writing a schedule of the project, electrical schemes design, choosing control system components, building and testing the real control system, presentation of the project.
Course Instructors
Leonid Chechurin
Leonid Chechurin is the Professor of Industrial Management Department and Head for the System Engineering group at LUT University (Finland). He received his Doctor of Science Degree in 2010 with the dissertation on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems. He has more than 40 publications in the fields of control and system theory and automation, mathematical modeling, creativity and innovations. He has been involved in the supervision of about 50 M.Sc. theses and dissertations.
Prof. Chechurin has the outstanding industrial experience, he was employed by leading innovating technology companies like Samsung Electronics or LG Electronics as a consultant for engineering design group (5 years in total). He has been consulting or teaching at General Electric Global Research Center (USA, Germany, India and Shanghai), Wrigley (USA), British American Tobacco (UK-USA), FMC (USA) and others (in total more than 50 seminars and consulting sessions and several research projects on inventive engineering design).
Anton Mandrik
Anton Mandrik is the assistant of the Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnical University. He got his Master Degree in 2010. He has 4 years of experience as engineer-researcher in such projects as: glass hardening, wind turbine blade optimization. Anton Mandrik has 5 years of experience in developing non-destructive testing equipment. He has 10 years of teaching experience. His fields of interest are: differential equations, electrical curcuits, control systems, technical problems, industrial design.
Course Content and Structure
The course is restructured into 5 modules: (1) system classification, (2) control systems schemes, (3) adjusting algorithms, (4) control systems components, and (5) automatization project.
The course structure and learning activities through 10 weeks:
Week 1
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Week 2
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Week 3
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Week 4
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Week 5
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Linear time-invariant systems.
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Operational amplifier, technical principles.
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Arduino platform. Technical characteristics.
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Quality criteria for control systems.
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PID controller.
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Linear time-varying systems.
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Analogue electrical schemes.
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Arduino platform. Sensors, transmitters, drivers.
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Stability analisys.
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Gain scheduling control.
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Nonlinear systems.
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Atmel 8-bit microcontrollers.
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Week 6
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Week 7
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Week 8
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Week 9
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Week 10
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Examples of automatization problems in real life.
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Simulation model, choosing controller design.
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Purchasing control system components.
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Assembling the control sytem.
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Final report, video presentation.
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Discussion of automatization problems.
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Electrical scheme design.
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Assembling the control system.
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Adjustment of the control system.
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Building a schedule of the automatization project.
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