Learning objectives
Provide an overview of the systems used in the automation industrial
Course unit content
AUTOMATION: ARCHITECTURE
a) Introduction to industrial automation
b) Automation of production processes
c) Architectures control hardware
REAL TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS
a) Classification of real time systems
b) Scheduling Algorithms
c) Outline of hardware and software implementation of a real-time system
ANALOG CONTROL VARIABLES
a) The control loop and specific control
b) Industrial Controllers: PID controller
c) Implementation Problems of a digital controller
PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLER - PLC
a) Hardware Architecture
b) Software Architecture
c) PLC programming languages: data types, identifiers, constants and variables, Ladder Diagram, Function Block Diagram, Structured Text, Istruction List
The SEQUENTIAL FUNCTIONAL CHART
a) Introduction, rules and basic elements
b) programming structures
c) Examples
INTRODUCTION OF DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS