Manufacturing Controls

FALL 2001

 

Manufacturing Controls- 20-IND-475-001

 

TIME: 11:00--12:15 PM, Tuesday and Thursday; Room: 617 ERC

INSTRUCTOR:  Professor Ernest L. Hall, P.E. Geier Professor of Robotics

PHONE:  556-2730, Email:  Ernie.Hall@uc.edu

OFFICE HOURS:  1:00--2:00 and 3:30--4:30 PM, TH, 681 or 508 Rhodes

WWW: mc.html

TEXT:  Devdas Shetty and Richard A. Kolk, Mechatronics System Design, PWS Publishing, Boston.

 

DATE  TOPIC                                                                         NOTES

1. Sep. 20            Mechatronics Design Process                                                Ch. 1

2. Sep. 25            System Modeling and Simulation                                 Ch. 2

3. Sep. 27            Laplace Transforms and Transfer Functions                      Ch. 2

4. Oct. 2            Electrical Examples                                                      Ch.2, Notes

5. Oct. 4            Mechanical Examples                                     Ch.2, Notes

6. Oct. 9            Thermal and Fluid Examples, QUIZ 1 (Take Home)

7. Oct. 11            Sensors and Transducers                                          Ch. 3

8. Oct. 16            Advanced MATLAB                                                   Ch. 3, Notes

9. Oct. 18            Analog and Digital Sensing                                     Ch. 3, Notes

10. Oct. 23            Actuating Devices                                                        Ch. 4                           

11. Oct. 25            DC Motor Model                                                   Ch. 4, Notes

12. Oct. 30      Boolean Logic                                                  Ch. 5

13. Nov. 1            Programmable Logic Controllers                               Ch. 5, Notes

14. Nov. 6            Stability and Compensators, P, PI and PD                Ch. 6

15. Nov. 8            PID Controllers                                                       Ch. 7

16. Nov. 13            QUIZ 2 (In Class - Open Book)                            

17. Nov. 15            Practical and Optimal Compensator Design              Ch. 8

18. Nov. 20            Frequency Response Methods                                   Ch. 9, Notes

19. Nov. 22            THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY                               Ch. 9, Notes

20. Nov. 27             Optimal Design of a Motion Control System             Ch. 9, Notes

21. Nov. 29            QUIZ 3 (In Class - Closed Book)

22. Dec.             FINAL EXAM (In Class - Closed Book)                          Comprehensive

 

Grading System: FG = .2(Q1 + Q2 + Q3 + F + HW)

Where FG = final grade, Qi = Quiz i, F = final exam, HW = homework.

 

Note to students: You are expected to attend class, read the text, and use the computer. Computer accounts and Email are required. You will find MATLAB essential for some of the homework. The syllabus topics are guidelines and may be adapted as required to improve your understanding during the quarter.