B2393 - ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY OF CONTROL SYSTEMS (6 CFU)

Learning outcomes

The course focuses on the technological architectures and main components (PLC, field bus, electric servomotors) which enable meeting sustainability goals in industrial automation systems. Students will analyze problems, distinguishing between functional and technological matters; they will get used to the basic concepts of real-time controller implementation in the field of industrial automation, learning how to analyze and design the "logic control" of an automatic machine compliant to the standard IEC61131-3, and finally they will learn how to choose the proper electric servomotor based on the motion control task specification.

Course contents

Introduction to industrial automation

Implementation of regulators

Architectures and Technologies

Microcontrollers and DSPs

Real-Time Systems

Digital Processors for Control

PLC

Logic Control

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

Introduction and use of CoDeSys  and Automation Studio as a tool to implement logical controls

Generic Device and Generic Axis

Diagnostics and fault management in automatic control systems

Electric cams generation 

Readings/Bibliography

Bonfatti, Monari, Sampieri "IEC 1131-3 Programming Methodology" CJ International

Teaching methods

The course consists of 60 hours in total, divided into lectures and exercises using simulation software and educational set-ups of automatic control systems.

Assessment methods

Written exam on the topics presented during the course and oral discussion of a report regarding the individual or group project of a logical control system.

Teaching tools

Course notes, Matlab and Simulink, Codesys, Automation Studio, IndustrialPhysics

Office hours

See the website of Gianluca Palli

See the website of Roberto Meattini