34790 - Automation Systems and Technologies (2nd Cycle)

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Gianluca Palli
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/04
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Gianluca Palli (Modulo 1) Nicola Mimmo (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for Energy (cod. 8770)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Computer Science and Engineering (cod. 8615)

Learning outcomes

The student will obtain a good knowledge of technological architectures employed in the automation engineering and in particular in the industrial automation field; the student will be able to analyze control systems architectures both from a functional and from a technological viewpoint; the student will obtain a basic knowledge of computational architectures and real-time architectures employed in industrial automation including Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), actuators; the student will also be able to design logic control (i.e. software for automation) employing IEC 61131 programming languages; the student will achieve good knowledge relative to the sizing of electric actuators for the design of automation machines.

Course contents

  • Introduction to industrial automation

    Implementation of control laws

    Architectures and Technologies

    Microcontroller  and DSP

    Real-Time Systems 

    PLC

    Logic Control

    IEC 61131-3 (SFC, ST, LD, IL, FBD)

    CoDeSys as a tool to implement logic control 

    Generalized Actuator

    Electric Actuators

    Advanced Control Architectures (Autopilots, Special Projects realized during classes)

Teaching tools

slides exercises

Links to further information

http://www-lar.deis.unibo.it/people/gpalli/SETA-LM-2015.html

Office hours

See the website of Gianluca Palli

See the website of Nicola Mimmo