Lecturer: Ezio Bassi   Francesco Benzi  

Course name: Automation systems and devices
Course code: 064171
Degree course: Ingegneria Elettrica, Ingegneria Informatica
Disciplinary field of science: ING-IND/32
L'insegnamento è caratterizzante per: Ingegneria Elettrica, Ingegneria Informatica
University credits: CFU 5
Course website: n.d.

Specific course objectives

The course focuses on a series of arguments related to industrial automation and domotics.

Course programme

The course aims at giving an overview on various issues in the field of automation both for industrial and civil applications (e.g. robotics & factory automation, home automation) and is mainly centered on communication protocols and electrical drives. The main topics compise:

• Automation Systems Architectures; devices for the automation, industrial PLC & PC, systems for Numeric Control; Smart Grids;
• Levels of Automation; ISO-OSI model; Software for industrial automation; communication protocols (speed, accuracy, determinism) and standards; automation for continuous and discrete industrial processes;
• domotics and buiding automation: standards and case studies.
• D.C. four-quadrant chopper and chopper-fed d.c. motor; dead-time on pwm inverters;
• loads with variable inertia; two-link manipulator: lagrangian formulation and terms of the torque; control of a manipulator with laboratory experiments; control of drives with elastic coupling;
• harmonic pollution on power lines; double-fed induction motor; schemes and algorithms for the reconstruction of the speed in electrical drives; drives with linear actuators and switched reluctance motors.

Course entry requirements

Basic electrical drives, power electronics, power plants and control.

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 34
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 6
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 6

Suggested reading materials

Quaderno tecnico GISI. Bus di campo tra normativa e tecnologia. GISI Milano, 2000.

P. Vas. Parameter Estimation, Condition Monitoring, and Diagnosis of Electrical Machines. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Daniele Fabrizi. Enciclopedia-Vocabolario dell'Automazione Industriale (2002). Edizioni CEI.

E. Bassi - F. Benzi. Lecture Notes - Available only on a few arguments.

Testing and exams

The exam does comprise a written test on fieldbusses, domotics & building automation and an oral presentation (power point accompanied by a written relation, duration: 35-40 minutes) on a subject related to electrical drives.