Three-Day Short Term Course
Automation
and Mechatronics Fundamentals
&
Hands-on
March 27-29, 2003
INTRODUCTION
Because of increasing demand on quality and productivity of products and services, the industrial dynamics is changing rapidly on several fronts including economics, research, technical knowledge and so on. To match these demands of increased quality at lower cost, more and more industries are going for automation. Also, for crucial sectors like defense/automated air, land, naval weapon systems, where no external knowhow is readily available, our engineers need to acquire the knowledge in the field of automation and mechatronics. With this motivatioin, the proposed 3-day course is designed to offer fundamental theoretical and PRACTICAL knowledge base in automation and mechatronics. After this course a more advanced course in these areas is planned for another 3 days.
The course is designed to prepare theoretical basis with emphasis on engineering applications and practical implementation of automatic control systems. Several examples are considered along with case studies, and interactive hands-on sessions to grasp the necessary fundamentals in short time and get ready to apply them in appropriate situation. Participants will get an opportunity to work with sensors and actuators and carry out experiments on control systems to learn from real world systems.
COURSE COVERAGE
DAY 1: Introduction. Importance of automation, Elements of mechatronic systems: sensors, actuators, controller. Mathematical modeling/ representation of physical systems, real world examples. Closed loop and open loop systems. Use of Laplace transforms, transfer function and state space representations. Using MATLAB for simulation of these systems. Basic types of controllers P, PD, PID and their simulation. Hands on experience simulating systems on MATLAB.
DAY 2: Concept of stability, stability analysis, Linear domain tools for control analysis and synthesis: Use and application of Root locus method, frequency domain analysis, Bode plot, and Nyquist plot. Concept of controllability and observability. Examples and working with MATLAB to apply these tools. Lab session 1: Hands on experience handling various sensors.
DAY 3: Introduction to Digital control systems. Concept of sampling, Implementation of digital control: using computer and microprocessor. Introduction to filters, their importance. Advanced control topics. Case study: design, development and implementation of control. Lab session 2: sensor and actuator interfaces with computer, DC servomotor characteristics, control using computer.
FACILITY
The mechanical engineering department has state- of the art recently developed mechatronics lab containing several real world control systems including several electro-dynamic systems, robotic systems, electro-servo-hydraulic system, pneumatic system which are used for academic lab and research purposes. Computation lab in mechanical engineering hosts large no. of latest computers catering to computational, simulation needs of the department apart from computation resources in other labs.
WHO MAY BENEFIT
- Engineers in industrial organizations working with automatic systems.
- Defense project staff working on automated weapon delivery system.
- Research associates working with govt. research labs handling control systems.
- Teachers in the area of automation & control interested in practical aspects.
- Professionals who would like to learn practical aspects (implementation etc.) of automatic control.
- Professionals who would like to learn funda-mentals / feasibility / benefits of automation for their industry.
- Any other professionals having interest in the topics of presentation.
COURSE FACULTY
· P.S. Gandhi (gandhi@me.iitb.ac.in), Course Coordinator, Mechanical Engineering
· C. Amarnath, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
· B.Seth, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
· A. Joshi, Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Several other faculty from Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering would be delivering lectures in the course.
COURSE FEE
The fee for the course is Rs. 4500/- per participant. For Academic
/ Govt. Research organization participant, the fee is Rs. 3000/- (only on
production of affiliation certificate). Course fee includes course material as
well as lunch & tea during course days.
VENUE
Seminar
Room (Second floor), IIT Guest House.
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is available in the Institute Guest house for a limited
number of participants on payment as per actuals and with advance request.
REGISTRATION
Interested participants are requested to complete the registration form
and mail it to the course coordinator along with the demand draft towards
course payment.
The demand draft may be drawn in favour of “The Registrar, IIT Bombay
-CEP Account”. Please note that no
income tax is to be deducted at source from the course fee, as IIT Bombay is
exempt from the same.
Please
address all communication to:
Prof. P.S. Gandhi, Course Coordinator,
Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai – 400 076
Phone : (022) –
25767519 / 25768519 / 2539 7563
Fax : (022) –
25723480
Email : gandhi@me.iitb.ac.in
Web : http://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~gandhi/CEP/
APPLICATIONS MAY BE SENT SO AS TO REACH US BEFORE: 13th March,
03.
R E G I S T R
A T I O N F O R M
Three-day Short
Term Course on
Automation and Mechatronics: Fundamentals and hands-on
March 27 – 29, 2003
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