The COM4LAB course “Control loops and stability” is the second course on control engineering. The basic concepts and laws of control loops are explained and worked out practically using a large number of experiments. The course consists of 10 chapters.
Total duration: Up to 7 hours
Target audience
The course can be used to support the training process for the following professions and subjects, among others:
- Electronics technician for automation technology
- Electronics technician for energy and building technology
- Electronics technician for devices and systems
- Electronics technician for information and systems technology
- Electronics technician for machine and drive technology
- Aircraft electronics technician
- Automation technology (Bachelor)
- Control engineering (Bachelor)
Learning objectives
The students should:
- Understand the basic principle of control loops, the evaluation of control loops (stability, quality criteria),
- understand the implementation of controllers for real technical controlled systems and
- understand error identification in control loops.
Topics
The course will cover the following topics:
- Stability of control systems
- Quality criteria for control systems
- Setting rules for PID controllers
- Controller design according to Ziegler/Nichols
- Temperature control
- Speed control
- Light control
- Control of sections without equalisation
- Control with discontinuous controllers
- Fault simulation
Previous knowledge
Students need basic previous knowledge of electronic components and control engineering(COM4LAB course: Introduction to Control Engineering) in order to successfully complete the course. The use of simple formulae is assumed.
