436-305 Data Acquisition and Control

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

431-103 Electrical Engineering 1, 431-102 Computer Engineering 1 and 436-301 Control Systems

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

On completion of this subject students should be able to; interface analog and digital sensors and actuators with a microcomputer; program the computer in a high-level language to; acquire reliable data from the sensors.

Topics covered include; overview: Structure of computer-controlled systems. Sensors and actuators: characteristics of some common analog and digital sensors and actuators. Signal conditioning: amplification and filtering, design of analog interface circuits using op-amps; design of simple logic circuits. Microprocessors and microcontrollers: review of architectures, instructions and operations; programming for real-time operations, interrupts. Interfacing: analog and digital I/O. Data acquisition: sample rates and aliasing. Digital Control: Implementation of simple control algorithms. Case studies: digital filtering and digital processing.

Assessment

One examination not exceeding three-hours; tests, assignments and laboratory reports, not exceeding 20 pages