Course Student Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the course, successful students will:
- Create mathematical models of physical systems and derive their governing equations in order to analyze the vibration properties of the systems.
- Determine the response of single degree-of-freedom systems to initial conditions, harmonic excitations, and general forcing conditions.
- Construct a block diagram representation of a control system from a schematic drawing of the system components.
- Develop the transfer function form of the input-output relation for a system or component from the time dependent input-output relation.
- Describe the effect of feedback on the stability and dynamics of a closed loop.
- Combine the transfer functions of components in a closed loop system to determine the process, open loop and closed loop transfer functions and the transfer function for an external disturbance.
- Select the proper controller action and control algorithm (using proportional, integral and derivative action) to obtain the desired response of a closed loop to changes in command and external disturbances.
- Predict the stability, time response, frequency response and steady state error for a linear time -invariant system.
- Explain the principles of digital control and describe the effect of sample time on the dynamics of the closed loop.
- Operate the ABB IRB robot