After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

- subdivide automation systems into their control components and structures.
- Assign technical processes to the corresponding control processes.
- interpret piping and instrumentation flow diagrams and associated process control stations
- interpret pneumatic circuit diagrams and solve simple examples independently
- explain how a PLC works
- to explain how distributed control systems are operated in accordance with IEC 61499
- create simple control programs according to IEC 61131 and IEC 61499
- reliability, probability of failure, failure rate and other parameters and to interpret them
- Explain and classify determinism, access methods and topologies of fieldbus systems
- calculate kinematic chains
- can explain direct and inverse kinematics and calculate simple examples
- can fundamentally explain the path planning of industrial robots

Chapter I: Process Control Architectures
System architectures in process control, process control plants, open- and closed-loop control

Chapter II: Process Control Engineering
Programmable logic controllers, distributed control, implementation using IEC61131-3 as well as IEC61499

Chapter III: Reliabiliy and Safety
Danger and risk evaluation in process engineering, safety-related procedures and their requirements as well as means for the determination of error probabilities

Chapter IV: Introduction to Industrial Robots 
Forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, denavit-hartenberg convention, parametrization of rotational systems

Chapter V: Communication Systems
Communication systems for automation with a focus on industrial fieldbus technologies

Lecture with application examples

Please consider for the time of the online examinations the examination regulation guideline valid for this LVA https://www.acin.tuwien.ac.at/file/teaching/master/Automation_and_Control_Systems/richtlinie_online_prfg.pdf

In case of non-compliance with the requirements, it is not possible to participate in the online examination!

Oral exam - relevant documents:

• Lecture notes

• Book "Automatisierung komplexer Industrieprozesse" B. Favre:
• Chapter 2.5 Verteilte Automatisierungssysteme
• Chapter 2.7 Feldbusse
• Slides of the lectures

There will be a script for the course, covering the chapters I, II, and IV at least partially. Further documents (e.g. excerpts from books) will be provided during the course in TISS.