Academic Year of Degree:
2024/25
430 - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
29617 - Automatic Control Systems
Teaching Plan Information
Academic year:
2024/25
Subject:
29617 - Automatic Control Systems
Faculty / School:
110 - Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
Degree:
430 - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
2
Semester:
Second semester
Subject type:
Compulsory
Module:
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1. General information
Approaches and objectives: to understand, model, analyze dynamic continuous systems, and to design controllers. In addition, students will learn how to operate in a real control environment, identify its different elements, perform a system analysis and computer-aided controller design, and experiment and fine-tune the designed controller on real systems.
2. Learning results
Identify the subsystems and their relevant interconnections to automate the overall operation of simple systems.
Select appropriate continuous systems modeling techniques, their analysis, and the design of automatic controllers according to the control requirements.
Apply techniques and methods for the design of elementary control systems that satisfy the performance specifications.
3. Syllabus
1. Introduction to automatic control.
2. Modeling of continuous dynamic systems.
3. Analysis of the time response of continuous systems.
- Steady-state response. Transient response. Stability.
- Feedback.
- Root locus.
4. Frequency response analysis of continuous systems.
- Bode diagrams.
- Simplified Nyquist criterion for stability.
- Relationship between time and frequency specifications.
5. Design of feedback control systems using frequency techniques.
6. PID control.
- PID control variants.
- Empirical tuning.
- Advanced control schemes.
4. Academic activities
Lectures: 30 hours
Problem solving and case studies: 15 hours
Laboratory practices: 15 hours
Teaching assignments: 25 hours
Oriented to reinforce and also to evaluate (in part) the practical contents, especially those related to computer-assisted analysis and design.
Personal study work: 60 hours
Assessment tests. 5 hours
5. Assessment system
We consider very relevant the acquisition of practical skills, so their evaluation will be carried out throughout the four-month period on the basis of the work in each lab session, previous reports, resolution of questions, etc.
Thus, in each call, the evaluation will include two parts:
1. Individual written test (CT) to evaluate theoretical knowledge and case resolution: 80% of the grade.
2. Assessment of practices (CP): 20%. It can be passed throughout the term, but a specific individual test will also be done during the assessment period for students who have not passed this part during the term.
In order to pass the subject it is mandatory to obtain a grade higher or equal to 5 in both parts, CT and CP. Only in that case the overall grade for the subject will be 0.8*CT+0.2*CP. Otherwise, the overall grade will be the minimum between 4 and the result of applying the above formula. The subject is passed with an overall grade of 5 out of 10.
6. Sustainable Development Goals
7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure