Syllabus - Automation System Design (AB 603(B))

Automation and Robotics

Automation System Design (AB 603(B))

VI-Semester

Unit 1

Fundamentals of Automation System Design

Basic concept of Automation System Design, Measurements with Industrial Field Instruments, Data acquisition, analysis and control software NI LabVIEW, Process Plant Control & Automation System Design, Programmable Automation Controllers, (PAC), Automation System Integration & Engineering Concepts.

Unit 2

PLC & PID Controllers & Industrial Networking

Programmable Logic Controllers & PLC interfacing Techniques, Programming of PLC using Ladder diagrams, Function Block diagram & Structured Text Language Troubleshooting and maintenance of PLC systems. Implementation of control techniques using PLC, PLC programming with Allen Bradley SLC500 series (SLC5/02 & SLC5/04), RS Logix 500 Software, Fundamental process control techniques, Controller tuning methods, Introduction to Industrial, Networking Analog and DigitalCommunications on Plant Floors.

Unit 3

SCADA/ HMI System Development

Introduction to SCADA Different Systems in SCADA like Field Instrumentation, RTUs, communication Networks and Central Monitoring Stations, Intellution’s iFIX SCADA Software National Instrument’s LabVIEW DSC (Data logging& Supervisory Control) Software HMI Development, Data Processing, Control Algorithm Programming Modem connectivity & SCADA protocols - Modbus/ IEC 60870

Unit 4

Distributed Control Systems

Distributed Control System (DCS) architecture Introduction to ABB, Freelance DCS , Control Builder F Configuration Tool, Project Management and hardware configuration

Unit 5

Industrial Drives & Robotics

Motors & Drives , DC Motor Drives, AC Motor drives, Embedded Controllers for Drives, Industrial Application of drives, Concepts of Industrial Robots, Classification Robot Task Programming, Applications of Robotics.

Course Objective

This course is aimed at making an Engineer with appropriate experience; a qualified designer of Industrial automation systems with the use of PLCs, PACs, Industrial Field Instruments like temperature/ flow/ pressure sensors and transmitters, control valves, pumps, I/P converters, etc., Industrial PCs, SCADA/HMI, Data-acquisition boards, Machine vision, robots, Microprocessor based instruments, and related Software. The course also includes an industrial oriented project work during which the student will be working on specific assignments of his/her choice

Practicals

Reference Books

  • Process Control Systems: Application, Design, and Tuning 4th Edition by F. Gregg Shinskey, McGraw-Hill Professional

  • Process Dynamics and Control by Dale E. Seborg, Duncan A. Mellichamp, Thomas F. Edgar, John Wiley & Sons

  • Programmable Controllers - Selected Applications, L. A. Bryan, E. A. Bryan

  • SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Stuart A. Boyer, ISA

  • Process/ Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, by Gregory Mcmillan, Douglas Considine, McGraw-Hill Education

  • Control systems engineer technical reference handbook By Chuck Cornell, ISA

  • Measurement and Control Basics By Thomas A. Hughes

  • Process Control Instrumentation Technology, Curtis D. Johnson

  • Industrial Ethernet, By Perry S. Marshall and John S. Rinaldi, ISA