Automatic Control & Robotics

Computer science, IT, programming, hardware –all included

Courses (common)

• Control Fundamentals

• Computer graphics

• Embedded systems

• Databases

• Operating Systems

Courses (ACR – specific)• Semester 6

• Robotics 4• Optional Course A1

Constrained Logic Programming/Object oriented programming• Optional Course A2

Industrial measurement/Reliability and intrinsic safety• Semester 7

• Applied Digital Signal processing• CAD of Control Systems• Hierarchical Control• Optional Course A3

Computer Controlled Systems/Linux advanced programming• Optional Course A4

Industrial Control System Design/ Electromechanical devices• Optional Course A5

Robot Vision/Game theory & decision making

What do we offer?

• Technological laboratories, fully equipped with

• industrial sensors, actuators (electrical, pneumatic., hydraulic), networks

• modern industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)

• Prototypes of industrial plants

• Process control – heat exchange, neutralization,

• Electromagnetic mill,

• active suspension

• and many other…

• competent teaching staff with industrial professional experience

Automatic Control & Robotics– what’s in for the students?

Constraint Logic Programming

• Constraint Logic Programming is a science about computer systems based on constraints.

• The idea of Constraint Logic Programming is to search for the solution(s) that will satisfy (all) posed constraints.

• “Constraint programming represents one of the closest approaches computer science has yet made to the Holy Grail of programming: the user states the problem, the computer solves it.” - Eugene C. Freuder.

• CLP applications:

• artificial intelligence,

• combinatory problems,

• natural languages processing,

• tasks scheduling,

• resources allocation,

• cryptography,• DB systems (data integrity, grouping),• molecular biology (DNA sequencing),• electronic engineering (fault detection,

circuit design),• …

Constraint Logic Programming

• Course organization:

– Lecture with CLP theory, real-life CLP problem examples and code examples;

– Laboratory with Project Base Learning approach;

– Java language as a programming tool;

– JaCoP library for CLP mechanics;

– CLP problems chosen by students.

• Skills obtained during course:

– Knowledge about constraints, search algorithms, optimization, AI and Constraint (Logic) Programming;

– Ability to model and solve following classes of problems: combinatory, scheduling, planning, resource allocation and more;

– Programming in Java language using object-oriented features.

Microprocessor Systems and

Digital Signal Processing

• Microcontrollers

• FPGA matrix

• Remote communication

• Signal analysis

• Acoustic signals

Industrial measurements

• The issues of measurements of quantities used widely

in industry (e.g. flow rate, level, pH, conductivity).

• Expression and determination of metrological

properties of measuring devices.

• Usage of networks in industrial measurements

systems (e.g. HART, Profibus, Modbus).

• Special requirements for industrial measuring devices.

Industrial Measurements and

Computer Vision

• Safety systems

• Measurements of physical parameters

• Reliability tests

• Machine vision

• Non-destructivetests

Industrial Control Systems

• ProgrammableLogic Controlers

• Embeddedsystems

• Measurementinstruments

• SCADA systems

CAD/CAM,CAE systems

• Reliability theory, terms (eg. MTBF, MTTF, MTTR, CFI).• Reliability analysis methods.• Reliability assesment of electronics circuits.• Using fuzzy sets in the evaluation of reliability.• Maintenance and a human error assesment .• Constructions of explosion-proof apparatus,

an intrinsically safe systems.

(P : 2)

PROTECTION SYS

Loss of Protection

System

PIPE SPLIT

Pipe Split

IE

CORROSION

Corrosion

IE

LEAK

Leak

SPARK

Spark

IE

EXPLOSION

ABC EXPLOSION

TOP GATE

Reliability and intrinsic safety

heat exchange and distribution setup neutralization setup

Technological laboratories

pneumatic setup

hydraulic setup

Technological laboratories

biological wastewater treatment plant

Technological laboratories

Rockwell, Siemens, ifm elektronik, etc.

PLC laboratories

AdvancedMeasurementsand Algorithms

for Control and SignalProcessing

• Electromagnetic mill

• Active noise control system

• Acoustic camera

• All-terrain vehicle

• Mobile measurement system

Student research group „Control Engineers”:

established in Control Systems and Control Instrumentation Group

supervising teachers: dr inż. Krzysztof Stebeldr inż. Piotr Łaszczyk

areas of interest:

•basic and advanced PLC programming

•practical implementation of industrial control systems

•modelling and simulation of industrial systems and processes

•virtual commissioning of industrial control systems

Automatic Control – what’s in for the students?

Automatic Control – what’s in for the students?

• Inter-faculty student research groups

• High flyers (dr inż. Roman Czyba),

• Silesian GreenPower (prof. Marian Błachuta)

• Your own ideas are welcome