Automation and ElectronicsLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

After completion of this course the student is able to understand
• the functions and tasks of the automation,
• the data acquisition and the handling of the measurement,
• the structure and the operational function and the tuning of the PID control algorithm.
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After completion of this course the student is able
• to undertand the basics, the structure and the meaning of the automation, the measurement and the control, and the transfer and the handling of the measurement signal,
• to tune a simple PID controller
• to operate and to configure a simple automation system
• to program a simple application by the programmable logic
• to define experimentally the dynamic of the process.

Content

• the basics, the structure and the functions of the automation with a special interest in the processes of the biotechnical and food industry
• process dynamics and it’s effect on the control
• the basics of measurement technology, measuring scales, basic industrial measurements, the functions and the structures of the basic measuring sensors, the handling of the measurement signal, the data acquisition systems, the uncertainty of the measurement,
• PI diagrams and the drawing marks of the instrumentation
• industrial actuators, valves, pumps and blowers
• industrial controllers, PID control algorithms, open and closed loop systems, the analysis and the tuning of the control loop, the stability, the response analysis, the performance indices,
• the control system design and the simulation of the industrial unit processes
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Special emphasis
• on the control of the processes of the biotechnical and food industry,
• on the structure, the component and the method of the control system,
• on tuning the control loop by using simulations.

Qualifications

Physics and the laboratory works