Main Courses for Specialty in Automation
Electrical Machinery and Electric Power Drag Foundation is one of the professional basic courses for Automation major. The main contents of this course include foundation theory and science experiments for practical industry, which combining Electrical Machinery with Electric Power Drag Foundation. For undergraduate students, the task of this course is mastering the basic structures and principles of AC, DC motors and transformers, knowing well operation performance, calculation analysis and experiment skills of electric power drag system. The necessary basic knowledge lays a solid foundation for the next courses such as Direct Current Drive Control System, AC Regulation Speed System and Factory Electricity Supply. The following basic objects should be achieved for students: understanding the foundation theory of commonly used AC,DC motors and transforms; knowing well the foundation theory of analyzing mechanical performance and all kinds of operation states for electro motors; mastering the foundation theory and adjustable speed indexes of regulation speed methods in electric power drag systems; possessing skillful the computational analysis methods of motors and electric power systems; to become familiar with the basic experiment methods and skills for motors and electric power systems.
Direct Current Drive Control System
Direct Current Drive Control System is a primary specialized course for automation specialty. By studying this course, the basic knowledge and analytical methods for dc electric drive automatic control system can be mastered by graduation students. The mission of this curriculum is to make students skilful mastery of the basal principle, control law, static and dynamic performance analysis and engineering design methods for automatic control system, as well as the relevant practical application problems. The final goal is to make students be of strong practical ability by using knowledge learned. By studying this course, the students should have the ability of basic analysis and design, debug, maintenance and management for dc electric drive system, as well as the basic skills of solving practical problems. Mastery of static characteristic, feedback control law, steady state parameter calculation, current limiting measures, dynamic mathematic model and stability analysis for single closed loop dc regulation speed system. Understanding the following points, such as the structures, steady and dynamic state performance, the engineering design methods of regulators for velocity, current double closed loop regulation system. Knowing well of the reason for the loop current emerged in the inverse parallel couple SCRs reversible circuit, the method of elimination or suppression, the composite of circular current system, control methods and so on.
Regulation Speed System is taken as a required course for automation specialty. This course introduces the basic theory and knowledge about alternating current motor timing. By studying this course, the students can have the development and design ability of the alternating current speed system. The aim of this course is to make students mastering the fundamentals as well as analysis and design method of AC regulation speed control system. The following basic requirements should be achieved: mastering the analysis and design method for asynchronous motor variable voltage speed control system, variable voltage variable frequency control system and doubly-fed adjustable speed system, as well as parameter design problems; mastering the characteristics, applications and implementations of all kinds of regulation speed systems; a solid understanding of PWM control technology, coordinate transformation and closed loop principles for VVVF control system.
Power Electronics
Power Electronics is an interdisciplinary subject based on Electrodynamics, Electronics and Automatic control theory, which is widely used. It is a specialized core course for strong and weak electricity or strong electricity major. This course will mainly focus on all kinds of power electronic devices and control techniques of various power electronics circuits composite by these devices, including rectifier, inverter, DC/DC converter, AC regulator, AC/AC frequency converter, combination converter, PWM control circuitry and so on. This course establishes the important foundation for the subsequent courses of automatic specialty. Students after studying this course should have a deeply and completely acquaintance with power electronic devices, master skilful the working principle and analysis method of basic rectifier circuits, be able draw waveforms of all kinds of circuits at different load cases, possess relevant computing methods; master working principles of reversible driver system, understand and master the working principle and related concepts including DC/DC converter, alternating current control circuit, variable frequency circuit and combination converter circuit, PWM control circuit, understand the influence of harmonics and power factor caused by power electronics circuits.
Modern control theory is a degree course of the automation major. The studying task of this course is to enable students master the basic concept, principle and method of modern control theory. Based on mastering the basic concept of control theory, aims of this course is to make the students obtain the ability to analyse, design and dynamicly simulate for the control system, and to lay massive foundation for futher study, deeply research and the using of the control theory. By studying this course, the students should master the basic knowledge and analytical method of the linear system theory and be able to describe the system by state space expresion, skillfully master the method of buliding the state space expresion of the system by its differential equation and be able to make transformations among the different models of the linear system, master the solving method of the state space expresion of the linear time-invariant continuous system and know how to solve the state equation of discrete-time system, skillfully master the concept and the criterion of controllability and the observability for the linear control system, know the Lyapunov stability theorem of the control system, master designing method of state feedback and full dimensional state observer of the linear system, master the concept and sloving method of the transfer function matrix and know the basic idea of the decoupling control.
Factory electricity supply is a specialized course of the automation major. Through learning of this course, students can initially master knowledge of the designing, operation and maintenance of a supply and distribution system with factory electricity at 35kV or below, which will lay a foundation for the futher related study and work.This course involves wide specialty and broad knowledge, and has highly practical and theoretical. By studying this course, the students should have the certainknowledge about the component of the electricity system and the production process of the electricity, master the performance and characteristic of the common electrical equipment in the factory electricity supply system, master the basic engineered calculation method in the designing of the factory electricity supply system, including calculation of the load, calculation of the loss of power and electric energy, calculation of the current of the short circuit, selection of the lead section, and setting calculation of the relay protection current, and know well the basic knowledge of operation and maintenance of the factory electricity supply system.
By learning this course, students are required to master the method of computation and realization for the system’s digital simulation, including mathematics model of continuous system, numerical approach of ordinary differential equation, establishment the simulated program facing to transfer function and structure chart based on calculable way of fourth rank Rounge-kutta, simulation by link discretization of continuous system and the basic operation of MATLAB language. By learning the specialized knowledge, the aim is to train students to do simulation experiment by using computer and to provide fundamental base for the futher study. Through the study of this course, students should master the time domain digital simulation of the continuous system based on numerical integral method and discretization method, master the basic principle of buliding the simulation model.
Automatic control theory is a basic course for students majoring automation. For the students, the learning task of this course is mastering the basic concept, basic theory and method of the classical control theory.
Based on mastering basic concept of the control theory, aims of the course are to let students to be of essential ability to qualitative analysis, quantitative estimation and dynamic simulation for systems, and to lay massive foundation for the studying of specialized courses and engineering practices. After studying this course, the students should master the modelling approach of the linear, time-invariant and continuous systems and the transformating method among different mathmatic models, master the analyze method of the linear, time-invariant and continuous systems (including time-domain analysis method, root locus method and frequency-domain method) and can analyze the stability, dynamic property and the steady-state performance of the systems by using these method, master the series correction method of the the linear, time-invariant and continuous systems and the basic principle of the feedback correction and composite correction, and master the mathematical description and analyze method of the linear, time-invariant discrete systems.
Process Detection and Instrumentation
This course is a compulsory course of automation major. The aim of this course is to introduce the measurement method and the fundamental and characteristics of instrument. The main task is to make our students understand the basic concept of process measurement technology and instrument, and grasp some common measurement methods. What is more, the students, completing successfully the course, have the ability to analyze and design simple detection program. After learning of this course, the students should meet the following basic requirements: mastering majority of the basic concepts and basic principles in process detection technology; mastering measurement principle and structure of typical detection instrument.
This course is a very practical one, and it is an important specialized compulsory course for automation major. Motor and other executive electrical apparatus is control object in this course. The main content of this course is to introduce operating principle of relay-contactor control system and programmable logic controller, electrical control circuits of typical mechanism and design methods of electrical control system. PLC control system applications are very general. It has become the main means of industrial automation and the focus of teaching. The main purpose of this course is to make students have the ability of using what they have learned to solve practical problems. The ability underlies their jobs. After learning of this course, the students should meet the following basic requirements:
(1) Being familiar with the structure principles and applications of the commonly used controlelectrical apparatus. And what’s more, they should be able to select and use the main control electrical apparatus.
(2) Skillfully mastering the basic links of relay contactor control circuits, having the ability of reading and analyzing operating principles of the electrical control circuits, and designing reasonably electrical control circuits according to client’s request.
(3) Being familiar with the electrical control systems of the typical equipments; being able to engage in electrical equipment installation, commissioning, maintenance and management of the electrical apparatus.
(4) Being familiar with the structure of PLC and its operating principle; knowing about the related equipment with PLC and industrial software.
(5) Making themselves master of the basic instructions and applications of PLC; being familiar with the basic programming ideas of PLC.
Principles and Applications of Single-chip Microcomputer
This course is a compulsory course of automation major. The purpose of this course is to make students master of the basic design methods of the micro-computer control system. Microcomputer principle is the basis of the course for students. By learning more about microcontroller memory structure, instruction, and design methods of the input/output interface circuit, students can introduce many physical quantities to microcontroller. Thus, microcontroller provides the necessary hardware for detection and control of the production site. Students can design digital controller according to different controlled objects and system performance requirements. Further to learn typical single chip control system examples, it can train the design ability of students for microcontroller control system. After learning of this course, the students should meet the following basic requirements:
(1) Focus on mastering power supply, clock circuits, memory structure, I/O port input and output circuits of microcontroller.
(2) By learning and mastering the memory structure and input-output interface circuit design, students can design basic micro-control system.
(3) Mastering of MCS-51 instruction set; mastering the structure, four working manners, programming and applications of timer/counter.
(4) Grasping the structure and the working manner of the serial port.
(5) Mastering interrupt request sources, the interrupt control, the interrupt response process, the response time of the external interrupt, an external interrupt mode selection.
(6) Mastering the basic method for memory expansion, including the program memory and data memory expansion.
Principles and Applications of Microcomputer
The course is one of basic course of Automation. The students can learn Microcomputer’s structure, master the programming method based on Assembly language, and use some interface chips by learning this course. The total concept of microcomputer system is built and hardware-designing capability is taught also. There are some basic teaching targets as follows: 1. Understand computer’s history, main features, hardware source, leads function and connecting method, typical 8086 system configuration and operating time sequence. 2. Master 8086’s addressing mode and instruction system. 3. Master compile language’s basic laws and programming method. 4. Understand the working principle of basic memorizing circuit, the static and dynamic memory, their inner structure, and connection with CPU. 5. Be familiar with out devices’ structure, communication mode with CPU, interrupt and 8086 interrupt system, and interrupter’s basic function. 6. Master 8255A and 8253s’ initializing, typical applications and communication in series.
Process Control Engineering
The course is one of the primary course of Automation. The typical type in process control system are introduced, such as single circle control system, serial control system, feed-forward control system and ratio control system. By learning this course, the students can master basic knowledge and designing method of control system, use control theory with the process to solve the engineering problems in design. There are some basic teaching targets as follows: Understand basic structure, classification and history of control system. Master the choosing method of control variable and manipulated variable, the control manner , system set, theory analysis and engineering designing method, and system-designing capability.
Computer Control Technology
The course is one of the primary course of Automation. By learning this course, the students can master basic knowledge and designing method of computer control system, use I/O interface and I/O channel to gather data from producing plant, and design digital control suited for different plant and system target. There are some basic teaching targets as follows: Understand basic structure, features, typical application manners and developing of control system. Master I/O interface circuit design, the analogizing of digital controller, the discrete method of analog controller, PID and its improving arithmetic, choosing of sampling circle, PID parameter’s set, mini-circle controller and DaLin controller. Remember common designing approach, common application programs and Temperature control system design.
The course is one of the basic course of Automation and other fields in electrics. It is the important prior-learning course to Communication Principle, Digital Signal Processing and so on. By learning this course, the students can master the basic theory, principle and method in signal and linear system analysis, and solve the problems occurring in later courses and works by using this methods flexibly. There are some basic teaching missions as follows: To train student to think nonrepresentational, to improve their capability of analyzing and solving problems, to build an firm basis in order for them to research communication theory, control theory, signal processing and signal detecting.