Course detail
Automation and Control
FSI-IAR Acad. year: 2020/2021 Summer semester
The course is concerned with problems of measurement, automation and regulation in branches of heating ventilation and air-condition. Attention is paid to individual parts of real control loop. The students are acquainted with sensors and measuring devices, regulators and actors in control systems used for regulation of temperature, humidity, heating, ventilation and air-condition of buildings. The course is also focused on the equipment starting from elementary regulators to modern systems of integrated automation of buildings.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
General overview of methods, principles and devices for measurement, automation and regulation of heating, ventilation and air-condition of buildings and applying the acquired knowledge for solving a specific assignment.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge from physics and mathematics, introduction from theory automatic control, basic knowledge of problems of heating and ventilation in buildings
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Teaching is suplemented by practical laboratory work.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Course – unit credit: participation in laboratory exercises and presentation of work results. Resulting evaluation up to 10 points is included in the result of the examination, provided credit is to obtain at least 6 points.
Exam: written test of all problems the subject (0 – 40 points). Total the student receives up to 50 points, condition passing of the exam at least 26 points. Classification: excellent (46-50 points), very good (41-45 points), good (36-40 points), satisfactory (31-35 points), sufficient (26-30 points), failed (0-25 points).
Aims
Students will have an overall view of methods and devices for measurement, automation and regulation of basic parameters of environment in heating, ventilation and air-condition and their practical utilizing in practice.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance in laboratory exercises is monitored . An absence is compensated by solving individual assignments.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2I-P: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-TEP: Environmental Engineering, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction, importance of automation, control loop
2. Feedback – measuring circuit, properties of measuring devices, new definitions of SI units 2019
3. Principles, methods and devices for measurement basic parameters of environment
4. Unified signals in control loop, amplifiers
5. Basics of automation, types of control modes and controllers
6. Continuous and discontinuous control in heating and ventilation control
7. Compact controllers and programmable logic controllers
8. Actuators in heating, ventilation and air-condition
9. Methods of solving simple control application in heating and ventilation technique
10.Using PC for measurement and control, devices for visualization and remote measurement and control by means of the Internet
11. Basics of integral systems of automation building – others monitored functions in a building
12. Modern systems – intelligent building, smart city, IoT.
13. Practical presentation of modern system of selected company
Laboratory exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Static and dynamic characteristics of devices
2. Measurement of basic quantities in Environmental Engineering
3. Unified signals in control loop, converters
4. Elementary control loops
5. Measurement automation and using PC for control
6. Samples of software for measurement and control support; SMART systems
7. The final exercise, evaluation, credit