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Module Title
LI Mechatronics and Control Engineering
School
School of Engineering
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Module Code
04 31737
Module Lead
Roger Dixon/Gerard Cummings
Level
Intermediate Level
Credits
20
Semester
Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions
None
Contact Hours
Lecture-44 hours
Supervised time in studio/workshop-15 hours
Guided independent study-141 hours Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description
The aim of the module is to enable students to understand and use control design and how it can be realised using sensors, microprocessors and actuators in engineering designs and applications
Embedded systems Write programs for embedded microcontrollers, understand the constituent elements of a microcontroller and interface the microcontroller to support circuitry; Write C programmes for embedded microcontrollers that control peripheral hardware Understand how embedded systems interact with the real world through sensors and actuators. Control Engineering Control fundamentals: Modelling of simple mechanical and electric systems Analysis of systems Steady state error analysis, Stability (Simplified Nyquist), Stability margins. Control Design Design based-upon Nichols and/or Bode plots Compensator design via classical loop-shaping Case studies
Implement the skills and knowledge acquired during the module in the design and construction of a complete system.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Students are able to use the C programming language for embedded computing.
Students deepen their understanding of embedded microcontrollers and communication protocols used by computer
Students can extract information about microcontrollers from technical information
Apply their understanding of embedded microcontrollers and C programming language in the experimental Lab environment
Identify and describe the main control techniques used in industry
Use the methods of physical modelling to develop math models for common engineering systems.
Evaluate time and frequency domain responses of transfer function models.
Relate closed-loop system behaviour to the open-loop characteristics in the frequency domain
Design cascade compensation practical control systems
Apply these Control techniques in the experimental Lab environment
10% continuous assessment of the understanding of Control lecture material 10% continuous assessment of the understanding of Microprocessor lecture material 15% continuous asessment of student laboratory work for Control 15% continuous assessment of student laboratory work for Microprocessor 50% 1.5 hour exam on control systems and embedded systems
Reassessment:
100% 1.5 hour exam on both components in supplementary period.
