Basics of Control Engineering - AM217031
Title: Basics of Control Engineering
Guaranteed by: Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering (217)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:3
E-Credits: winter s.:3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: 27 / 27 (27)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Pokorná Lucie Ing. Ph.D.
Volcke Eveline prof. dr. ir.
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Annotation
The aim of this course is to provide the student with a basic education in terms of control engineering and process engineering. Through practical examples, the student is familiarized with the block scheme representation of controlled systems. After imparting the necessary understanding of the dynamic behaviour of linear systems, the relationship between open-and closed-loop dynamics is elaborated. Attention is paid to the selection and tuning of controllers. Besides the basic single-loop feedback scheme, cascade control and feedforward control schemes are studied as well.
Last update: Bindzar Jan (10.04.2022)
Course completion requirements

Written examination (50%), oral examination (50%)

Last update: Pokorná Lucie (12.09.2023)
Literature

Obligatory:

  • Chemical process control, an introduction to theory and practice, Stephanopoulos G., 1984

  • Process Dynamics and Control, 4th Edition, Dale E. Seborg, Thomas F. Edgar, Duncan A. Mellichamp, Francis J. Doyle III, 2016

Recommended:

  • Process control for practitioners, how to tune PID controllers and optimize control loops, Smuts, Jacques F.

  • Process Control: Theory, Applications, and Challenges, Varney A.L., 2014

Last update: Pokorná Lucie (26.08.2024)
Syllabus

1. Introduction: Aim of process control; terminology

2. Dynamic behaviour of linear systems

3. First order systems

4. Second order systems

5. Higher order systems

6. Feedback control: Principle – examples

7. Feedback control: Controller types

8. Feedback control: Open-loop versus closed-loop dynamics

9. Controller selection and tuning

10. Controller design problem

11. Performance criteria

12. Controller type selection

13. Controller tuning

14. Cascade control - feedforward control

Last update: Bindzar Jan (10.04.2022)
Registration requirements

none

Last update: Pokorná Lucie (10.04.2022)