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<title>Automation Technology</title>
<cid>WIBASc-525-625-Ing22</cid>
<bkey>wi2</bkey>
<ctypes>
<hours>2</hours>
<type>V</type>
<hours>2</hours>
<type>PA</type>
</ctypes>
<cp>5</cp>
<semester>5</semester>
<mandatory>no</mandatory>
<language>English</language>
<exam>Project work with presentation</exam>
<curriculum>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>WIBASc-525-625-Ing22</cid>
<branch>Industrial Engineering</branch>
<semester>5</semester>
<mandatory_tag>optional course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>WIB21-WPM-I-704</cid>
<branch>Industrial Engineering</branch>
<semester>5</semester>
<mandatory_tag>optional course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
</curriculum>
<workload>
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.The total student study time is 150 hours (equivalent to 5 ECTS credits).There are therefore 105 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.</workload>
<prerequisites>
<prerequisite>
<pfcid>WIBASc145</pfcid>
<pftitle>Physics</pftitle>
</prerequisite>
<prerequisite>
<pfcid>WIBASc165</pfcid>
<pftitle>Mathematics I</pftitle>
</prerequisite>
<prerequisite>
<pfcid>WIBASc245</pfcid>
<pftitle>Manufacturing Engineering</pftitle>
</prerequisite>
<prerequisite>
<pfcid>WIBASc265</pfcid>
<pftitle>Mathematics II</pftitle>
</prerequisite>
<prerequisite>
<pfcid>WIBASc355</pfcid>
<pftitle>Computer Science / Programming</pftitle>
</prerequisite>
<prerequisite>
<pfcid>WIBASc445</pfcid>
<pftitle>Electrical Engineering</pftitle>
</prerequisite>
</prerequisites>
<knowledge>good knowledge of English is recommended</knowledge>
<prerequisitesfor>
</prerequisitesfor>
<convenor>Prof. Dr. Frank Kneip</convenor>
<convenor-person-key>fkn</convenor-person-key>
<lecturers>
<lecturer>Prof. Dr. Frank Kneip</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>fkn</lecturer-person-key>
</lecturers>
<objectives>Students, who successfully passed this module, are able to 
        decribe different sensors, their functional principle and corresponding advantages/disadvantages
        decribe different actuators, their functional principle and corresponding advantages/disadvantages
        decribe different hydraulic components, their functional principle and corresponding advantages/disadvantages
        decribe different control strategies, and are able to select suitale control approaches with respect to their application in a given system
        select suitable components in order to provide a suitable functionality of a given system and substantiate the reasons for the selection
        develop a concept for a prototypical implementation of a given system and build the concept using e.g. a microcontroller (Arduino,...) and corresponding sensors, actuators,...
</objectives>
<content>Part 1: Lecture
 
1.      Sensors
        1.1     Fundamentals of sensors
        1.2     Analysis of selceted sensors (functional principle, advantages/disadvantages)
        1.3     Application of sensors in systems

2.      Actuators
        2.1     Fundamentals of actuators
        2.2     Analysis of selceted actuators(functional principle, advantages/disadvantages)
        2.3     Application of actuators in systems

3.      Hydraulic components
        3.1     Fundamentals of hydraulic components
        3.2     Analysis of selceted hydraulic components (functional principle, advantages/disadvantages)
        3.3     Application of hydraulic components in systems

4.      Control strategies
        4.1     Feedforward and Feedback control
        4.2     Discontinous controllers
        4.3     Continous controllers (in particular P-, I-, PI-, PD-, PID-controller)
        4.4     Controller parametrisation
        4.5     Properties of the different controller types
        4.6     Applications of different controller types in systems
 
  
Part 2: Implementation of a prototypical system
1.      Analysis of the requirements
2.      Concept development and selection of the components
3.      Prototypical implementation of the system sing e.g. a microcontroller (Arduino,...) and corresponding sensors, actuators,...
</content>
<media>Lecture and group work</media>
<literature>      Fraden, J.: Handbook of Modern Sensors Physics, Designs, and Applications, Springer, 2016
      Heimann, Gerth, Popp: Mechatronics: Components Methods  Examples, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2006
      Isermann, R.: Mechatronic Systems: Fundamentals, Springer, 2005
      Mόhl, T.: Introduction to electrical Measurement Technology; Vieweg und Teubner, 2008

      Pan, T., Zou, Y.: Designing Embedded Systems with Arduino: A Fundamental Technology for Makers. Springer, 2018</literature>
<offered>
</offered>
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