Module Descriptors
CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
XXAT50330
Key Facts
Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences
Level 5
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Samuel Wane
Email: S.O.Wane@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 36
Independent Study Hours: 114
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • ASSIGNMENT weighted at 50%
  • EXAMINATION - UNSEEN IN EXAMINATION CONDITIONS weighted at 50%
Module Details
Module Learning Strategies
You will receive a mixture of lectures (2 hours per week), tutorials (1 hour per week) and case studies to demonstrate the above.
Module Special Admissions Requirements
Pre-requisite - CE00023-1 Mathematics for Technology or equivalent.
Module Texts
Control Engineering, An Introductory Course, Jacqueline Wilkie, 2002, Palgrave. ISBN 0-333-77129-X
Control Systems Engineering, N. Nise, 2000, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-36601-3
Module Resources
Control Laboratory facilities.
Module 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.
Module Additional Assessment Details
In course assessment (50%), 1 assignment - Practical experiment and report which will assess Learning Outcomes 1,2 and 3.
Examination (50%) which will assess Learning Outcome 1 and 3.