italian version

Aims :

The objective of this course is to provide students with the necessary methodological/technological knowledge and competence to develop and integrate systems and apparatus for industrial automation in different production processes.

Topics :

Introduction to control problems and to the related control systems. Feedback control systems.
Elements of system analysis. Transfer function. Frequency response. Frequency response
identification and Bode diagrams. Analysis of continuous time control systems. Stability, transient and steady-state response. Steady-state performance. Continuous time industrial regulators.
Techniques for automatic tuning. Digital control systems. Discretization for industrial regulators.
Fuzzy control systems. Technologies for industrial automation. Electrical actuators. Programmable logic controllers. Fieldbus. Simulation systems.

Textbooks :

Dispense del corso
Per approfondimenti si consigliano i seguenti testi (For further readings the following texts are recommended) :
Viswanadham N., Narahari Y., Performance Modeling of Automated Manufacturing Systems, Prentice Hall, 1992 (parte I)
Proth Xie, “Petri Nets: a tool for Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems”, Wiley
Moody J.O., Antsaklis P. J., Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Angela Di Febbraro, Alessandro Giua Sistemi ad eventi discreti
Cassandras- La Fortune, “Introduction to Discrete Event Systems” Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Exam :

The exam consists in a written and oral test. Depending on the number the students attending the course the oral part can be focussed on the discussion of an assigned report. Prerequisites for the exams are the contents of course of. Fondamenti di Automatica and the course of Controlli Automatici.

Tutorial Session:

Typically Monday afternoon