Industrial Control

Recommended Prerequisites

Calculus, Matrix Algebra, Laplace and Z Transforms.

Electronics, Instrumentation, Programming, Industrial Actuators (pneumatic, hydraulic and electric).

Teaching Methods

Regular classes with detailed exposure, using audiovisual media, on the planned subjects, and industrial setups existing in the laboratories prepared for this course.

Students carry out a practical assignment (in groups of 2-elements), which includes practical realization and research of a certain topic, which has then to be demonstrated and publicly presented

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to enable students to formulate correctly the concepts involved in the adoption of industrial control technics in an Industry 4.0 platform, to systematize concepts, to dialogue with specialists specifying interventions, to plan and manage robotization processes, intervene at the technical level and are able to identify error situations and mobilize the teams needed to remedy them. This course complements and updates previously obtained training, namely in programming, automatic control, robotics, distributed production systems, human machine interfaces, CAD systems, industrial production control systems, sensors and actuators, providing detailed technical and scientific training that allows students to work in the design and programming phase. Discipline implies the realization of a project, which in practice means the realization of a robotic solution to solve a particular industrial problem.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to Industrial Automation

- Modern production systems: introduction.

- Industry 4.0: opportunities, challenges and social impact.

2. Basics

- Electronics and Instrumentation.

- Acquisition systems.

- Sensors.

- Actuators:

- Pneumatics and hydraulics.

- Electric: motors.

- Speed variators.

- Industrial automatic controllers.

- Principles of systems modeling.

- Data and communications networks.

- Programming: examples.

3. Industrial automata

- Fundamentals and organization: PLC and other systems.

- Programming using GRAFCET, common languages and advanced tools.

- Monitoring and remote control.

- Examples.

4. Advanced automatic systems: industrial robots.

5. Production cells: flexible production systems (FMS) and computer integrated production systems (CIM).

6. Requirements for industrial automation: where, how and when.

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro Mariano Simões Neto

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 25.0%
Research work: 25.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Textos de Base

- Automação e Controlo Industrial, J. Norberto Pires, Lidel, 2019 (1ª edição).

- Robótica Industrial, J. Norberto Pires, Lidel, 2018 (1ª edição)

- Modern Control Engineering, K. Ogata, Prentice Hll, 2009 (5th edition)

- HandBook of Modern Sensors , Jacob Fraden, Springer-Nature Handbook, American Institute of Physics, 2010.