Course Objectives

• Understand the basic concepts of the design of control systems using different techniques.
• Apply knowledge of methods for system identification and control design to the application. Insight into the process of experimental performance analysis and controller re-design.
• Analyze linear discrete-time systems.
• Analyze and design digital control systems.

Course Outline

• Introduction: The Excitement of Control Engineering.
• Definition of modeling and control problems
• Advanced control system development
• Model based Feedback Control.
• Experimental methods and design approaches
• Cascade control system.
• Ratio control system.
• Advantage of feedback and feed forward?
• Intro. To Multivariable Control and MPC
• Computer control system, their advantage functions, how to select them (SCADA and DCS).
• Introduction to fluid power systems, pressure losses in hydrostatic systems, analysis of compressible systems, design and analysis of fluid power systems
• Limitations of performance.

Who Can Benefit?

• Engineers and highly qualified technicians working in the field of instrumentation and control in the process industries.