Module Descriptors
CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
ELEC50367
Key Facts
Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Debi Roberts
Email: debi.roberts@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS X 2 weighted at 60%
  • CLASS TEST (1.5 HOURS) weighted at 40%
Module Details
INDICATIVE CONTENT
Transducers and interfacing to a pc.
A pc programming language to read sensor data and act upon it.
Effects of interfacing, sampling rate and quantisation.
Basic control of a servo system, highlighting effects of altering gain: speed of response and overshoot.
Methods of modelling and simulating real systems
plc systems and ladder diagrams.
ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT DETAILS
1 x 1.5 hour class test - 40% which will assess Learning Outcomes 1, 2.

Coursework (60%) Comprising two laboratory experiments, equally weighted (30% each) - which will assess Learning Outcome 3.
LEARNING STRATEGIES
You will receive a mixture of lectures (2 hours per week), tutorials/laboratories (1 hour per week) and case studies to demonstrate the above.
TEXTS
Control Systems Engineering, N. Nise, John Wiley & Sons, 5th International Student Edition, 2008, ISBN-10: 0470169974, ISBN-13: 978-0470169971
Control Systems, W. Bolton, Elsevier, 2004, ISBN: 0-7506-5461-9

Engineering Systems Modelling and Control, M. Hargreaves, Longman, 1996, ISBN: 0-582-23419-0

Control Engineering, W. Bolton, Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN: 0-582-32773-3
RESOURCES
General measurement and Control laboratory facilities, suitable software simulators.