SEE710 - Instrumentation and Process Control

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Van Thanh Huynh
Prerequisite:

For students enrolled in S460, S461, S462, S463, S465, S466, S467: SEJ302 and completion of 18 credits points or Unit Chair approval.

For students enrolled in S550, S652, S751, S752, S756, S757, S758, S759, S652, S550: Nil.

For students enrolled in courses outside of the School of Engineering: Unit Chair approval.

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

2 x 1 hour seminars per week.

Content

Topics covered will include sensors and transducers, their application to force, pressure, displacement, and temperature measurements. Process and instrumentation diagrams, process characteristics, examples of control loops, feedback and feed-forward control, dynamic behaviour of low-order, higher-order systems and nonlinear systems, modelling of industrial processes including least square methods and Kalman filter for estimations, system identification technique to construct linear, nonlinear or complex system dynamics are taught. On top of that, implementation of control algorithms, discrete time control, optimal control, discrete finite-time control (dead-beat control), fundamental concept of robust control theory, and robust sliding mode control for high-order uncertain nonlinear industrial systems are part of the rich content of this advanced unit.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Explain the common types of sensors and transducers and their application to measurement and measurement error.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental concepts of automatic control using concepts of mathematical models to determine the characteristics of practical systems.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO3

Demonstrate a competence in assessing and improving the dynamic performance of continuous and discrete time systems using modern control system analysis and design techniques.

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Select appropriate control equipment and its application to industrial systems.

GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO5

Design a control system to meet performance specification of a typical industrial manufacturing system.

GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1
Problem solving exercises
Two written problem solving tasks (4 and 7 questions) 50% (2 x 25%) Weeks 6 and 10
Assessment 2
Group research project
5-10 page written research report 50% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SEE710 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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