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ME 474 Syllabus 20211

This document provides information about the Automatic Control course offered in the Spring 2020 semester. It lists the instructor's contact information and office hours. Important notes specify that attendance is important, more than 6 unexcused absences will result in a DN grade, and excuses must be submitted within 2 weeks of an absence. Pop quizzes will be given and there are no makeups. Students are responsible for checking email and the course website for materials. The required textbook and reference are listed. The course will cover topics such as feedback control theory, modeling dynamic systems, transfer functions, transient response, stability, root locus analysis, and PID control design. Student outcomes are provided for each chapter. The grading policy and exam dates are also included

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ME 474 Syllabus 20211

This document provides information about the Automatic Control course offered in the Spring 2020 semester. It lists the instructor's contact information and office hours. Important notes specify that attendance is important, more than 6 unexcused absences will result in a DN grade, and excuses must be submitted within 2 weeks of an absence. Pop quizzes will be given and there are no makeups. Students are responsible for checking email and the course website for materials. The required textbook and reference are listed. The course will cover topics such as feedback control theory, modeling dynamic systems, transfer functions, transient response, stability, root locus analysis, and PID control design. Student outcomes are provided for each chapter. The grading policy and exam dates are also included

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Mechanical Engineering Department

Automatic Control (ME 474)


Spring (2020)
Instructor: Dr. Abdullatif Bashiri
Office: College of Engineering Building – Vice Dean of Development
E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hrs: S, M & W (9-11) by JU Email

Important Notes:
 Attending classes is extremely important in order to understand and pass this course
successfully.
 Unexcused absence in 25% of course lectures (6 unexcused absences) will result
in an automatic DN grade According to Jazan University regulations.
 If you have an excuse for an absence, it will be accepted only within two weeks
after the absence.
 Pop quizzes (up to 3) are considered in this course, and there are no makeup
quizzes.
 It is the student responsibility to check his email besides Jump before and after
each lecture to have provide materials and homeworks.
Required Textbook: Dorf, R. C. and Bishop, R. H., "Modern Control Systems", 10th
ed., Prentice Hall, 2004.
Reference: Kuo, B. C. and Golnaraghi, F. "Automatic Control Systems", 8th ed , John
Wiley and Sons, Inc, 2002.

Description:
This course deals with automatic control systems’ feedback and their properties,
representation, and stability. Both analysis and design of control systems are included in
the course to configure the time and frequency responses using simulation software as well
as practical experiments.
Course objectives:
1. Understand the characterization of dynamic systems for analyzing, predicting, and
specifying the performance of an engineering system.
2. Develop, manipulate, and interpret system transfer function block diagrams
3. Predict time-domain system behavior by using the system transfer function.
4. Understand the concept of system stability and its implication for dynamic
feedback systems.
5. Provide a thorough treatment of designing classical feedback controllers in time-
domain using Root-Locus method.
6. Provide a thorough treatment of designing classical feedback controllers in
frequency-domain.
7. Provide analog feedback controller design experiences through laboratory
experiments.
8. Design proportional-integral-derivative controllers based on open loop system
performance.
9. Understand programming of the control system design using simulation software
(labview/Simio).

Topics & Student Outcomes: (Not necessary in order covered)


Chapter (1): Introduction to feedback control theory
After completing Chapter 1, students will be able to:
1. Describe the main components of control system
2. Construct main feedback loops for open systems
3. Describe the main sensors for measuring various control signals

Chapter (2): Modeling of dynamic systems & Block diagrams


After completing Chapter 2, students will be able to:
1. Model fluid system for low pressure application,
2. Model Mechanical systems of translating and rotating components,
3. Model the electrical and electronic systems for control system
applications,
4. Drive the differential equations that describe the dynamics of
various systems.
5. Construct the system model using LABVIEW software.
Chapter (3): Transfer function
After completing Chapter 3, students will be able to:
1. Map the differential equations into Laplace domain,
2. Construct the block diagrams of dynamic systems,
3. Drive the transfer function of simple block diagrams,
4. Reduce the complex block diagrams,
Chapter (4): Transient response
After completing Chapter 4, students will be able to:
1. Drive the transfer function of first order systems,
2. Define the characteristics values of the first order system,
3. Getting the time response of the first order system
4. Drive the transfer function of second order systems,
5. Define the characteristics values of the second order system,
6. Getting the time response of the second order system,
7. Understand the concept of dominant poles,
8. Getting the time response using LABVIEW software.
Chapter (6): Stability
After completing Chapter 6, students will be able to:
1. Drive the transfer function of higher order systems,
2. Determine the system stability by locating the system poles on s-
plane.
3. Determine the system stability by getting the time response,
4. Determine the system stability by use of Routh's stability criteria,
5. Determine the ranges of stability for feedback control systems
Chapter (7): Steady state error
After completing Chapter 7, students will be able to:
6. Determine the system order, system types, poles and zeros of
dynamic systems,
7. Determine the steady state error by general law,
8. Determine the steady state error by calculating the error constants,
9. Suggest the main ideas to stabilize the control systems.
Chapter (8): Root locus analysis
After completing Chapter 8, students will be able to:
1. Locate the system poles and zeros on s-plane
2. Determine the number of branches of the root loci on the s-domain,
3. Determine the crossing frequency of the system and the associated
gain,
4. Sketch the root locus of the system,
5. Predicting the time characteristics according to the root location on
s-plane,
6. Getting the root locus of control systems using LABVIEW
software,
7. Design proportional controller for predetermined damping ratios.
Chapter (9): PID control Design
After completing Chapter 10, students will be able to:
1. Design PID controller according to Zigler-Nichols 2nd method,
2. Design PID controller according to process reaction method,
3. Implement control action using LABVIEW software,
4. Construct the controller hardware to implement the required
actions.

Grading Policy:
To be announced
Exam Dates:
1. 1st Major Exam (7th week)
2. 2nd Major Exam (11th week)
3. Final Exam (to be announced later)
Schedule:

Week Class Lecture Topic Activity

a) Motivation, Control Engineering, Open Loop -


st 1
1 Control
a) Closed loop control. Q (1)
2
b) Feedback principal.
Modelling of dynamic systems (liquid level system) -
nd 1
2
Modelling of dynamic systems (mechanical) Q (2)
2

1 Modeling of dynamic systems (mechanical) -


rd
3
Modeling of dynamic systems (Electrical & Electronic) Assg.(1)
2

th 1 Block Diagrams I Q (3)


4
2 Block Diagram algebra -

th 1 Block Diagram reduction Assg. (2)


6
2 Laplace Transform -

th 1 Transfer Function -
7
2 MTE Mid. (1)
s nd
th 1 Transient Response (1 & 2 order systems) -
8
Transient Response (high order systems), Poles, Zeros, Q (4)
2
dominant poles
Finding and plotting the roots of the characteristics -
th
1
9 equation
Stability, Routh's Algorithm Assg. (3)
2

Steady state error, Steady state error coefficients Q (5)


th
1
10
Root locus I -
2

11th Root locus II Q (6)


1
Root locus – Design of proportional control Mid. (2)
2

PID control - Introduction Assg.(4)


th
1
12
PID control – Process reaction method -
2

PID control – Ziegler Nichols method -


th
1
13
PID control - Application -
2

Frequency Response (Polar plot) Pres.


th
1
14
Review Pres.
2

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