The course is included in these curricula and study modules

  • Automation (el 2004) - Professional studies
  • Telecommunication (el 2004) - Professional studies
  • It 2001 - 2004 - Basic technical studies

Level/category

General studies

Teaching language

Swedish

Type of course

Compulsory

Recommended year of study

2

Total number of ECTS

3 cr

Competency aims

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the analysis and design of feedback control systems.

Learning outcomes

Having successfully completed this course the student will be able to:
- understand a block diagram
- identify processes from their transient response to a step input signal
- understand the functional principles of common industrial sensors
- understand how a PID-controller works
- design an analog control system

Course contents

- Examples of control systems
- Block diagram models
- Control systems and system types
- Sensors
- Analog and digital controllers
- Controller tuning
- Elementary control theory
- Dynamics of physical systems, differential equations
- The Laplace transform, transfer function
- Block diagram reduction

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Mathematics, Physics

Recommended or required reading

Thomas Bertil: Modern reglerteknik, Liber,1997, ISBN
91-47-01305-2
Schmidtbauer Bengt: Analog och digital reglerteknik,
Studentlitteratur, 1995, ISBN 91-44-26602-2

Study activities

  • Lectures - 30 hours
  • Excursions and demonstrations - 5 hours
  • Exercise based learning - 20 hours
  • Laboratory lessons and tasks in a simulated environment - 5 hours
  • Individual studies - 20 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 80 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 20 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 60 hours

Mode of Delivery

Participation in tuition

Assessment methods

  • Exams
  • Reports and productions

Examiner

Skön Kim

Group size

No limit

Assignments valid until

Until further notice

Assessment methods

  • 2006-04-26 - Exams
  • 2006-04-26 - Reports and productions

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