Course Name: Industrial Control
Course No.: ECE_1115012
Professor: Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad
Taught Semesters: Fall (2014, 2010, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990)
Course Name: Industrial Control
Course No.: ECE_1115012
Professor: Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad
Taught Semesters: Fall (2014, 2010, 2003, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990)
The tentative course contents are as following:
Time: | Teaching Contents |
Week 1 | Process Modeling: modeling with physical principals, state equations, electromechanical system modeling, hydraulic systems modeling. |
Week 2 | Process Modeling: Mechanical systems modeling with Lagrange, open tank modeling, level control, modeling of tanks with pump, drums, thermal processes. |
Week 3 | Process Identification: Dynamic models, time response methods, two, three and four components models, integrating systems, oscillating systems. |
Week 4 | Process Identification: Frequency response methods, Z.N. frequency responce method, relay feedback method, parametric identification, least-squares solution. |
Week 5 | PID controllers, implementation: PID controller characteristics, electical implementation, electronic implementation, pneumatic implementation, microprocessor implementation. |
Week 6 | PID controllers, tuning: Ziegler-Nichols tunings methods, IAE, ISE, and other methods. |
Week 7 | PID controllers, tuning: Extended Z.N. method, when and why Z.N. are effective, integral windup, systems with delay. |
Week 8 | PID controllers, design: P controller design based on stability margin, PI controller design based on steady state characteristics or disturbance rejection in steady state. |
Week 9 | PID controllers, design: Lag controller design, PD controller and closed loop bandwidth, lead controller, PID and lead-lag controller, comprehensive example. |
Week 10 | Midterm |
Week 11 | Introduction: Industrial process, Automation benefit, automation components, process modeling and control, PID controllers. |
Week 12 | Industrial Automation: Pneumatic and hydraulic in automation, valves and actuators, position control of hydraulic cylinders, |
Week 13 | Industrial Automation: position control of hydraulic cylinders, sequence control, cascade control. |
Week 14 | Industrial Automation: Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), basics, hardware, programming methods, simple program development. |
Week 15 | Industrial Automation: PLC applied examples, ladder programming, PLC industrial process examples, introduction to Siemens S7 PLC’s. |
1 | Hamid D. Taghirad, An Introduction to Industrial Automation and Process Control, With Presentation of Siemens Step7 PLC, 3rd Edition, K.N. Toosi University Publication, 2015. |
2 | Advanced PID Control, K.J. Astrom, and T. Hagglund, Third Edition, Inst. Soc. America, TJ 223.P55A85, 2006. |
3 | Control Engineering, A Modern Approach, P.R. Belanger, Saunders College Pub. 1995. |
4 | PLC and their engineering application, A.J. Crispin, McGraw Hill, TJ223.P76C75, 1990. |
5 | Power Pneumatics, M.J. Pinches and B.J. Caller, Prentice Hall, TJ950.C35, 1997. |