Computer Process Control

Course title: Computer Process Control

Code: 3ФЕИТ01Л007

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 2+2+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): This subjects introduces the students to the use of computer implemented algorithms for process control, whether the computer is a microprocessor, microcontroller, PC, or an industrial computer. The course also utilizes the previous knowledge of control theory by implementing the known and taught control algorithms using computers, thus coping with both the hardware and software issues of the process. The course therefore makes the students competent to study and design computer controlled processes.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Basics of computer control. Hardware aspects and technical equipment of the computer control systems. Signal inputs and outputs. Control loop elements. Software aspects of the computer control systems. Real time process control. The concept of interrupt in computer control. Computer control of complex systems. System decomposition. Hierarchical and multilevel control. Linear digital control. Discrete-time computer control systems. Discrete-time PID control and optimization. Discrete-time state space control. Pole-zero cancellation control. Dead-beat control. Discrete-time control of processes with large delays.

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