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| The following courses are offered regularly: |
| Process Automation I: Control Engineering (winter term, 2 h lecture, 1 h practice) |
Basic functions in controls, combinatorial and sequential circuits, process control computers, programmable logic control, numerically controlled feeding axes, control of machine tools, control of coordinate measuring machines, control of industrial robots, computer-integrated manufacturing.
Contact person and instructor: Dipl.-Ing. P. Schneider |
| Process Automation II: Process Measurement (summer term, 2 h lecture, 1 h practice) |
Signals and systems, transmission behaviour of mechanical structures and electrical networks, selected procedure examples: measurement of coordinates and shape, experimental stress analysis, measurement of mechanical vibrations (modal analysis), non-contacting speed measurement, measurement of air humidity and material moisture content, introduction to digital image processing.
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. P. Schneider |
| Process Automation III: Sensor Systems (winter term, 2 h lecture, 1 h practice)
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Ohmic sensors, capacitive sensors, piezoelectric sensors, inductive sensors, electrodynamic sensors, photoelectric sensors, optoelectronic sensors, inertial sensor systems; interfaces (bridge circuits, analog-digital converters); measuring amplifiers; measuring systems and measuring equipment.
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. D. Pesotski |
| Process Automation IV: Actuator Systems (summer term, 2 h lecture, 1 h practice)
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Electromagnetic actuators (externally and self-commutated motors, actuators with limited stroke, control concepts); fluidic and pneumatic actuators (proportional and switching valves, fluidic and pneumatic motors, control concepts), unconventional actuators (piezoelectric and magnetostrictive solid-state actuators, actuators with shape-memory alloys, actuators with electrically controllable fluids, power amplifiers).
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. D. Pesotski |
| New Signal Processing Methods for Sensors and Actuators (summer term or winter term, 2 h lecture, 1 h practice)
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Input/output behaviour of actuators and sensors based on active materials. Operator-based methods for hysteresis compensation (inverse control/filtering). Laboratory practice on a piezo-electric positioning system.
Further information: www.klauskuhnen.de |
| Practice Process Automation I (winter term, 4 h practice) |
Displacement measuring systems, piezo actuators, strain gauge sensors and measuring amplifiers, image processing, microprocessor-based controls, digital signal processing I.
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. P. Schneider |
| Practice Process Automation II (summer term, 4 h practice) |
Digital signal processing II, correlation measurement technique, experimental vibration analysis, programmable logic control, position control loop, robotics.
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. P. Schneider |
| Seminar (winter term/summer term) |
| Discussion about topical problems of process automation. |
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