Exam informations
Oral exam - relevant documents:
- Book "Automatisierung komplexer Industrieprozesse" B. Favre:
- Chapter 2.4 Steuerungen und Regler
- Chapter 2.5 Verteilte Automatisierungssysteme
- Chapter 2.7 Feldbusse
- Chapter 2.8 Industrieroboter
- Chapter 4 Leittechnik (gesamt)
- Slides of the lectures
Workload for exams
Description
The aim of this course is to acquire basic knowledge in the fields of process control, industrial automation systems based on cyclic- as well as event-driven control, highly flexible automation, industrial communication systems, and industrial robots.
Chapter I: Process Control Architectures
System architectures in process control, process control plants, open- and closed-loop control
Chapter II: Process Control Engineering
Programmable logic controllers, distributed control, implementation using IEC61131-3 as well as IEC61499
Chapter III: Reliabiliy and Safety
Danger and risk evaluation in process engineering, safety-related procedures and their requirements as well as means for the determination of error probabilities
Chapter IV: Introduction to Industrial Robots
Forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, denavit-hartenberg convention, parametrization of rotational systems
Chapter V: Communication Systems
Communication systems for automation with a focus on industrial fieldbus technologies