Academic Year of Degree:
2025/26
430 - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
29624 - Control Engineering
Teaching Plan Information
Academic year:
2025/26
Subject:
29624 - Control Engineering
Faculty / School:
110 - Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
Degree:
430 - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Ambit:
Electrical engineering, electronic engineering and telecommunications engineering
Tipo de enseñanza:
In person
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
3
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Compulsory
Module:
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1. General information
The objective of this subject is that the student acquires the necessary knowledge for the design of computer-based control systems, in particular discrete event systems and continuous systems discretized in time.
It is recommended to have taken the subject Automatic Systems, whose theoretical basis is used intensively in the subject.
2. Learning results
In order to pass this subject, students shall demonstrate they have acquired the following results:
- Designs and implements the computer control of a system, selecting the most appropriate technique according to the control requirements and the context in which they arise.
- Applies system identification techniques in order to extract mathematical models suitable for use in control.
- Simulates the behavior of dynamic systems using appropriate computer tools.
- It designs a hierarchy of distributed control, solving both the communication needs between the different elements of the control, as well as the computerized supervision of the whole.
3. Syllabus
Unit 0: Introduction
Unit 1: Discrete (event) systems
1. Formalisms for representing SEDs and engineering interest
2. Deterministic Finite State Automata (DFA)
3. Mealy and Moore models. Transformations and minimization Limitations of DFAs
4. Petri Nets. Typical structures, modeling, analysis and properties
Unit 2: Computer control of continuous systems
1. Discrete-time signals
2. Z-transform: definition, properties, tables Description of sampled systems Discretization of continuous systems.
3. Analysis of sampled systems
4. Design of digital controllers
5. Practical aspects of scheduled implementation
Five practices related to the topics of the subject will be carried out.
4. Academic activities
Lectures (type T1): 30 hours
Lectures of theoretical and practical content.
Problem classes and case resolution (type T2) (13 hours of class).
Problems and case studies are developed.
Practical classes (type T3) :15 hours
The student carries out the simulation, implementation, and analysis of real automation and control systems.
Personal study (type T7): 86 hours
Assessment tests (T8): 6 hours
5. Assessment system
In each call, the assessment will consist of two parts:
- Individual written test (80%). Graded between 0 and 10 points (CT). It will be held during the exam period. In it, will evaluate the student on the set of learning outcomes from a theoretical and problem-solvingpoint of view.
- Evaluation of practical work (20%). Graded between 0 and 10 points (CP), it may be passed throughout the term (class period). (Graded test). In any case, a specific individual test will be carried out during the overall test for those who are not able to pass it
students who have not passed it during the term. The student will be assessed on the set of learning results offrom the point of view of practical work.
In order to pass the course it is an essential condition to obtain two grades (CT and CP) higher or equal to 4.5 points out of 10. Only in this case, the overall grade for the subject will be (0.20*CP+ 0.80*CT). Otherwise, the overall grade will be the minimum between 4.5 and the result of applying the above formula. The subject is passed with an overall grade of 5 points out of 10..
6. Sustainable Development Goals
7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure