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.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of automatic control, mathematics and physics. All at the level of completed courses in the framework of earlier university studies.
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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-STR-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization AIŘ: Applied Computer Science and Control, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
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
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.