EET 302 - Introduction to Control Systems
Fall 1998/Spring 1999

Course Coordinator: Prof. Marvin Needler

COURSE DESCRIPTION: EET 302: Introduction to Control Systems, Credits 4. Class 3, Lab 2. Control systems commonly used in industrial and commerical facilities; relay control systems, programmable control systems, automatic control systems. Both lectures and laboratories provide hands-on experience with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and PC software.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

PREPREQUISITE OR COREQUISITE SOFTWARE USED:  P: EET 105 and EET 152 or EET 116. FANSIM, Labview, Ladder Logistics, Quattro Pro, Scopelink, TUTSIM

NORMALLY OFFERED TEXTBOOK USED:  Fall evening, Spring day EET 302 Course Manual, Needler, Tichenor Publishing, 1998

Topics
  1. Overview, introduction to relay control, switches, electromagnetic actuators
  2. Ladder diagrams, control ckts., reduced voltage starting
  3. Codes and standards, IC logic control
  4. PLC background, structure, PLC I/O, programming
  5. PLC languages and symbols, processor-based control
  6. Transient response, time const
  7. Mechanical systems
  8. The s operator, the s operator for components
  9. Transfer functions, time and frequency, block diagrams
  10. Concepts of dynamic control, measures, parameters, nonlinear
  11. Kinds of feedback control
  12. Transducers, potentiometers, electromagnetic, temperature transducers
  13. Strain gages, tachometers, other transducers
  14. Interfacing, continuous controls
  15. Actuators, dc motors, dc, ac, other motors, actuators

Computer usage
  1. PLC-2 Ladder Logistics Project.
  2. PLC-500 Ladder Logistics Project.
  3. Ladder Logistic Project.
  4. System Analysis Real-time Response.
  5. System Analysis Time- and Frequency Response.
  6. Semester Project using Wordprocessing Software.

Laboratory projects
  1. Introduction to Relay Control
  2. More Complex Relay Control
  3. Time Delay Relay
  4. Allen Bradley PLC’s
  5. PLC-2 and Ladder Logistics
  6. SLC-500 and Ladder Logistics
  7. GE Fanuc PLC’s
  8. An Application Program using PLCs
  9. Time Response Second-Order Systems
  10. Frequency Response Second-Order System
  11. A Servo Experiment
  12. Three Mode Controller
  13. System Analysis