Industrial Control Systems

Introduction, life cycle of control systems, continuous and discrete control.

Continuous control. Complex approaches to design of PID controllers: optimization, self-tuning and adaptation. Practical problems – filtering, bump-less transfer manual/automatic, anti-wind up.

Multi-loop control methods: feed-forward, cascade control systems.

Analysis and design in frequency domain: Bode diagram, root locus diagram. Stability of control systems. Nyquist stability criteria. Lead and lag compensators.

Practical work with MATLAB environment and Control System Toolbox and Optimization Toolbox in analysis and design of control systems.

Discrete control. Design, ladder diagram, functional diagram. Standard program languages of programmable logic controllers. Realization.  

Control is an important part of the design of modern systems in a variety of sub-areas. The main goal is to present the field in an interesting way through a number of examples and using computer tools. Students will learn basic approaches of continuous control systems as well as discrete event systems, basic approaches to design regulators, and also advanced, complex control systems that enable the control of more demanding systems and their analysis in the frequency domain. They will also develop and realize some discrete control problems on programmable logic controllers.

Lectures and laboratory exercises