ME 460
ME 460 - Industrial Control Systems
Spring 2024
Title | Rubric | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Industrial Control Systems | ME460 | AB1 | 63288 | LAB | 0 | 1000 - 1150 | T | 0036 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg | Michael Aramyan Ronald Tao |
Industrial Control Systems | ME460 | AB2 | 63289 | LAB | 0 | 1500 - 1650 | T | 0036 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg | Michael Aramyan Ronald Tao |
Industrial Control Systems | ME460 | AB3 | 63290 | LAB | 0 | 1000 - 1150 | F | 0036 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg | Michael Aramyan Ronald Tao |
Industrial Control Systems | ME460 | AB4 | 63291 | LAB | 0 | 1300 - 1450 | F | 0036 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg | Michael Aramyan Ronald Tao |
Industrial Control Systems | ME460 | GR4 | 76111 | LCD | 4 | 1100 - 1220 | M W | 2045 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg | Naira Hovakimyan Vivek Sharma |
Industrial Control Systems | ME460 | UG4 | 63287 | LCD | 4 | 1100 - 1220 | M W | 2045 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg | Naira Hovakimyan Vivek Sharma |
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Official Description
Detailed Course Description
Industrial control techniques; case studies of actual industrial systems; design, selection, and maintenance of industrial control systems, including electromechanical, pneumatic, thermal, and hydraulic systems. Prerequisite: ME 340 and ME 360 or equivalent or consent of instructor. 4 undergraduate hours or 4 graduate hours. Credit not given for this course and ECE 486.
TOPICS:
1. Introduction to computer controlled systems software and hardware of control systems
2. Modeling of dynamical systems by integral causality, state equations
3. Time domain analysis of linear time invariant continuous-time and discrete-time systems, discrete-time representation of computer interfaced continuous-time systems
4. Laplace transform and Z transform, transfer functions
5. Control system design by root locus method, PID controllers and Ziegler-Nichols method, approximation of analog controller by digital controller and Tustin transform
6. Frequency domain analysis of control systems, Bode plots, Nichols log-modulus plots, Nyquist stability criterion, digital signal aliasing and discrete frequency response
7. Frequency domain design of control systems, lead and lag compensations, phase and gain margins
ME: MechSE or technical elective.
EM: Possible secondary field, with approval.