Courses and Laboratories

Standards and Technical Graphics

Course summary:

1. National standards.
2. The system of quality assurance;
3. Quality technical conditions for electrical equipment;
4. Quality technical conditions for software;
5. The technical project for an industrial control equipment;
6. Technology of manufacturing of the control equipments;
7. The technical manual of an industrial product;
8. The professional standard of an industrial product;
9. Elementary notions of technical graphics;
10. Elementary notions on intellectual property;
11. Information and Internet access.

Project and Seminar Summary:

1. The drawing out of the technical project for an industrial automatic equipment: -the general plan, -the electrical circuits (by Orcad), -the connection diagrams, -the electrical specification, -the cable journal;
2. An example of case drawing, using Autocad;
3. The drawing out of the technical manual for an industrial control equipment;
4. The drawing out of the professional standard for an industrial control equipment;
5. Designing the quality technical conditions of a software package.

Virtual Instrumentation. Course for the students in the 7-th semester.

Course (LabView core 1 and 2. Course manual) and laboratory (LabView Core and 2. Exercises) summary:

1. Navigating LabView. Troubleshooting and debugging Vis;
2. Implementing a VI;
3. Relating data;
4. Managing resources;
5. Developing modular applications;
6. Common design techniques and patterns;
7. Using variables;
8. Synchronization techniques;
9. Event programming;
10. Error handling;
11. Controlling the user interface;
12. File I/O techniques;
13. Improving an existing VI;
14. Creating and distributing applications.

Control Systems for Electrical Drives. Course for the students in the 7-th or 8-th semester.

Course summary:

1. General problems in the automatic control of the electrical drives.
2. Electrical machines used in electrical drives with variable speed: the d. c. motor, the induction motor and the permanent magnet synchronous motor -electrical and mechanical characteristics and mathematical models.
3. Power electronic converter for electrical drives; general problems of the digital control of the electrical drives.
4. Design of the dc drive control system.
5. The theory of the vector control of the induction machine based upon the general flux.
6. Some specific structures of the vector control of the induction motor.
7. The vector control of the permanent magnet synchronous motor.
8. Control of the brushless d. c. motors.
9. Simulation of the electrical drives.
10. Observers in the automatic control of the electrical drives.
11. Control of the electrical drives based on fuzzy logic and neural networks.

Laboratory summary:

1. The principles of simulation of the electrical drives using Spice and Matlab.
2. Simulation of a control system for dc drives.
3. Simulation of a control system for a permanent magnet synchronous motor.
4. Digital control system of a permanent magnet synchronous motor, based on a DSP.
5. Digital control system of a permanent magnet synchronous motor, based on a motion control ASIC.