King Saud University
College of Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
EE352: Automatic Control Laboratory
First Semester 1426/1427 (2005/2006)
Academic Course Description
Supervisors:
Dr. Wahied GHARIEB
Office: 2C-108/1
Phone: 467-6745
Eng: Mohammed Aashraf Rabbani
Office: 1C-30
Phone: 467-6692
Text Books:
Support References : LAB Notes are prepared including a complete set of experiments.
Pre-requisites: EE 351
Co-requisites : -- -- --
Course Objectives: This laboratory is equipped with basic instruments and real time experiments that are necessary to familiarize the students with the basic concepts and updated technology in the control field. The undergraduate experiments are designed to reinforce and expand many concepts covered in the automatic control course EE 351 and digital control course EE452. .
Topics Covered: Different experiment are arranged to cover continuous and discrete systems.
Class / Tutorial Schedule: One Lab session per week with 2 hours.
Professional Component Contribution: Students can learn the analysis and demonstrate by himself basic concepts of automatic control. They acquire the basic skills of how to approach and deal with different systems to identify their models or to control the performance. Students must also utilize knowledge of circuits and basic engineering sciences in order to effectively analyze a diverse set of processes and its applications.
Relationship to Program Objectives(a - k): This course contributes to the general objectives listed for an Electrical Engineering Department.
Objective A: By teaching the student how to understand the physical problem, this course support the objective of producing graduate with science to electrical engineering.
Objective B: By teaching students how to capture signals and to analyze the final results and how to extract the conclusion. The student is able to perform partial phases of implementation, this course support the objective of producing graduate with science to electrical engineering.
Objective C: By motivating and encouraging students in discussions during lab and to get basic information and skills. Students also encouraged expressing their individual opinions to the obtained results; this course supports the objective of producing graduate with good communication skills.
Objective D: By encouraging the students to work in group (2 or 3 students per experiment) and to learn professional standards in dealing with alternative methods of analysis and implementation, this course supports the objective of providing graduates with a broad based education so that they can appreciate diversity of opinion, better understand ethical issues and develop a more global perspective of the profession.
Objective E: By teaching how to formulate the governing equations of the controlled system and how to integrate different components, this course supports the objective of producing graduates with relevant engineering design experience.
Objective F: By teaching how to communicate with others and how to work in groups, this course supports the objective of producing graduates with relevant engineering design experience.
Objective G: By teaching how to access related references (books, web sites) for life-long learning term.
Objective H: By teaching how to standard techniques, how to handle different components, how to address components data sheets; this course supports the objective of producing graduate with good communication skills.
Objective I: A good level in mathematics is required to be able to model the system; this course supports the objective of producing graduates with relevant engineering design experience.
Objective J: Mathematical skills are required at this level; this course supports the objective of producing graduates with relevant engineering design experience.
Objective K: By teaching how to interface with basic requirements in system integration.
Evaluation: There are graded home works, two 2-hours mid-term exams and a three hour final exam. The grade distribution is as follows:
Pre-lab test 20%
Experiments posters 20%
Mid term exam 30%
Final Exam 30%
Total 100%
Challenges and Actions taken to improve the Course:
· Poster design to emphasis the technical writing
· Small scale projects in the future.
Main Equipments:
1- Liquid Level Control Process
2- Temperature Control Process
3- Speed Control Process
4- Robotic Arm
5- COM-3-LAB (Control Technology I & II)
6- LAB-View (version-5)
· Simulation and Control
· Fuzzy Logic Tool Kit
7- PLC (Programmable Logic Control)-Siemens S7
8- PLC Application Models
· Elevator 3 floors
· Conveyor Belt
9- Microcontroller Programming Kit (ATMEL 89C52)
10- Basic measurements tools
11- PCs for monitoring, visualization, and control
Weekly Teaching Plan
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Week # |
Deliverables |
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1 |
Introduction to lab and software utilities |
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2 |
Lab1: Static and transient performance
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3 |
Lab2: Closed Loop Two Position Control
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4 |
Lab3: Closed Loop PID control
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5 |
Lab4:Static and transient performance
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6 |
Lab5:Closed Loop Two Position Control
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7 |
Lab6: Closed Loop PID control
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8 |
Mid-term Exam (Theoretical and Practical)
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9 |
Lab7: SIMATIC S7- Hardware and Software
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10 |
Lab8: Lift process simulation
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11 |
Lab9: Microcontroller ATMEL 89C52
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12 |
Final Revision |
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13 |
Final Exam (oral and practical test) |
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14 |
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15 |
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(hint: Experiments are continually updated to follow recent development in automatic control field)
December 20, 2005