Automation

3 ECTS credits
84 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1019079CNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Om een inschrijving te kunnen nemen voor 'Regeltechniek' moet men ingeschreven of geslaagd zijn voor 'Systeemtheorie'.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Industriële ingenieurswetenschappen

Educational team

John Lataire (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

18 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals

Course Content

The course 'Regeltechniek' is an introduction to very common concepts and techniques related to the control of dynamic systems. Systems are assumed to be linear and time-variant, and with 1 input and 1 output.

Brief Table of Contents:

Introduction to feedback
- Block diagrams
- Distinction between feedforward and feedback control
- Tracking behavior, behavior due to disturbance, sensitivity functions
The behavior of LTI systems
- Step response
- Static errors
- Frequency response, bode diagrams, gain and phase margin
Controlling linear systems
- Sketching and interpreting the root locus
- Compensation control (PD, PI, PID, lag, lead)

Course material

Course text (Required) : Regeltechniek, Controletheorie / Regeltechniek, John Lataire, 2023-2024, VUB Standaard Shop, 2220170011219, 2023
Handbook (Recommended) : Feedback control of dynamic systems, Gene F. Franklin, J. David Powell, and Abbas Emami-Naeini, 2002, Prentice-Hall

Additional info

This course is not taught in English!

Description tutoring: after class, by appointment or via e-mail.

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

D1: The student understands the basic components of a feed forward and feedback controller and knows their pros and cons
D2: The student can simplify block diagrams
D3: The student can interprete Bode diagrams and predict the stability of the closed loop controller
D4: The student can calculate the static error on the step response of a feedback controller and knows how the error can be set to zero
D5: The student can draw the root locus and knows how to interprete it for the design of PID controllers
D6: The student understands the pros and cons of the proportional, the derivative and the integral action of a PID controller and how these actions contribute to the control performance and disturbance rejection
D7: The student can conceptually design a PID controller
D8: The student understands PLC controllers and can use them for PID control

This course contributes to the following general learning objectives of the bachelors in industrial engineering:

BaLO_1 To possess in-depth, application-oriented knowledge, understanding and practical skills related to mathematics and science, directed towards engineering applications.
BaLO_2 To possess application-oriented knowledge, understanding and skills about engineering sciences and engineering techniques.
BaLO_3 To solve practical engineering problems from an understanding of the basic theory and from an understanding of basic methods for the schematisation and modelling of processes or systems.
BaLO_6 Based on acquired insight, to select the appropriate methods of research, design and solution and appropriately apply the results in a scientific and effective manner.
BaLO_9 To demonstrate an engineering attitude: attention to planning, to technical, economic and societal factors as well as managerial implications, assessment of the risks and feasibility of the proposed approach or solution, being result-driven and achieving effective solutions, innovative thinking.
BaLO_10 To correctly handle the scientific and discipline-specific terminology in language relevant to the programme.
BaLO_11 To present and communicate the results of technical and scientific work, in writing, orally and visually.
BaLO_13 To act in an ethical and socially responsible manner with attention to technical, economic, human and sustainability aspects.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Examen Regeltechniek with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: examinator R. Pintelon: mondeling examen Regeltechniek - gesloten boek - klemtoon op het begrijpen van de leerstof, reproduceren is niet voldoende.
Examen WPO Regeltechniek with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: examinator Assistent WPO: mondeling examen

Additional info regarding evaluation

The exam is oral with written preparation. The focus is on understanding the subject matter, reproduction is not enough.

Oral exam 'Regeltechniek' (titular) 1/2
Oral exam WPO 'Regeltechniek' (assistant) 1/2

The grade in first session of one of the exam parts (Theory exam, Exam on the labs) may be transferred to second session if all following conditions are met:

the grade of the part is at least 12/20
the student explicitly requests this transfer before the start of the second session exam to the titular of this course.

An illegitimate absence of more than 25 % at the laboratory practicals leads to an absent quotation for the laboratory practicals. The sanctions taken in the first exam session are transferred to the second exam session.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context