Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2024_25
Subject AUTOMATION AND CONTROL Code 00714009
Study programme
0714 - MASTER UNIV. EN INGENIERIA INDUSTRIAL
Descriptors Credit. Type Year Period
3 Compulsory First Second
Language
Castellano
Prerequisites
Department ING.ELECTR.DE SIST. Y AUTOMATI
Coordinador
MORÁN ÁLVAREZ, ANTONIO
 E-mail amora@unileon.es
jjfuem@unileon.es
prega@unileon.es
Lecturers
FUERTES MARTÍNEZ , JUAN JOSÉ
REGUERA ACEVEDO , PERFECTO
MORÁN ÁLVAREZ, ANTONIO
Web http://lra.unileon.es
General description The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the field of automation and automatic control. The course is divided into six topics. The first of these deals with general aspects of automation. The second and third topics deal with current controllers and their communications. In the fourth, fifth and sixth, different industrial modelling and control techniques are studied.
Tribunales de Revisión
Tribunal titular
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente ING.ELECTR.DE SIST. Y AUTOMATI RIESCO PELAEZ , FELIX
Secretario ING.ELECTR.DE SIST. Y AUTOMATI FERNANDEZ LOPEZ , CARLOS
Vocal ING.ELECTR.DE SIST. Y AUTOMATI PEREZ LOPEZ , DANIEL
Tribunal suplente
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente ING.ELECTR.DE SIST. Y AUTOMATI MARCOS MARTINEZ , DAVID
Secretario ING.ELECTR.DE SIST. Y AUTOMATI BLAZQUEZ QUINTANA , LUIS FELIPE
Vocal ING.ELECTR.DE SIST. Y AUTOMATI FOCES MORAN , JOSE MARIA

Competencies
Type A Code Competences Specific
  A13753
  A13755
  A13793
Type B Code Competences Transversal
  B3602
  B3613
Type C Code Competences Nuclear
  C4

Learning aims
Competences
Ability to design and plan automated production systems and advanced process control. A13755
A13793
 B3602
B3613
Students acquire the learning skills that will enable them to continue studying in a largely self-directed or autonomous way. A13753
 C4

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Part I: AUTOMATION Lesson 1: INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
Industrial automation architectures. Automation pyramid. Industrial sensors and actuators. Control systems. Supervision and management systems.

Lesson 2: PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATICS
Block diagram of a programmable logic controller. Central processing unit, program memory, data memory. Input-output interfaces, wiring. Operating modes, operating cycle Programming languages Software.

Lesson 3. INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Common structure. Levels of automation: field, control, supervision, management. Introduction to fieldbuses. Standardisation: OSI reference model. Industrial communication protocols.
Part II: CONTROL Lesson 1: CONTROL SYSTEMS
Types of control systems. Concept of feedback. Open loop, closed loop. Structure and elements of the basic control loop.

Lesson 2: OPEN LOOP SYSTEM ANALYSIS.
Analysis of linear systems. Modelling. Block diagrams. Stability. Classification of systems according to their order. System response.

Lesson 3: CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS
Static and dynamic analysis of feedback systems. Steady state errors. Stability analysis. PID control: basic control actions: proportional, integral, differential. Implementation of PID control in a programmable logic controller.

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Class hours Hours outside the classroom Total hours
Presentations / expositions 1 1 2
 
Personal tuition 1 1 2
Laboratory practicals 12 14 26
Other methodologies 2 5 7
 
Lecture 14 24 38
 
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies   ::  
  Description
Presentations / expositions Students may submit proposed work related to the subject for assessment.
Personal tuition Individual and group tutorships to facilitate the learning of the different parts of the course.
Laboratory practicals The teacher will guide students in the application of theoretical concepts and results to solve problems and their modeling in the area of Automation. In this way, critical reasoning and the exchange of information between work groups are encouraged at all times and the concepts seen are applied to as many particular cases as possible. With this, the acquired knowledge is consolidated (remote laboratory technology is used to access a greater number of different possible industrial problems) and a higher level of abstraction is achieved in the student and the creation of reasoning structures based on cases.
Other methodologies The activities will be carried out through the Remote Automation Laboratory http://lra.unileon.es of the University of León.
Lecture The lecturer will make use, where appropriate, of remote access technologies to illustrate theoretical concepts with practical industrial applications in order to achieve a complete symbiosis of theory and practice.

Personalized attention
 
Personal tuition
Description
Students can count on the help of the teacher in individual or group tutorships. These tutorships will take place in the teacher's office or in the laboratories of the subject upon request of the student via email.

Assessment
  Description Qualification
Lecture Final individual and/or group in person exam and continuous assessment activities. 80%
Laboratory practicals Reports submitted and/or exams related to practical contents. 15%
Other methodologies Evaluation of the activities carried out using ICTs to record, as far as possible, the work done by the student. 5%
 
Other comments and second call

Written exam: 80%.

Those students who have not passed the laboratory practical assessment or have not handed in the activities will have to take a practical exam. This exam will account for the remaining 20% of the mark.

FOR BOTH THE FIRST AND THE SECOND CALL:

The written exams may include questions related to both theory and practice.

In order to pass the course it is necessary to:

To achieve a minimum of 4 points out of 8 in the written exam evaluation.

A minimum of 0.75 out of 1.5 in the evaluation of the practical part.

Achieve a final mark of at least 5 points.

Sources of information
Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE

Basic

Balcells, Joseph and José L. Romeral (1997). Autómatas Programables. Marcombo.

Mandado, E., Marcos. J., Fernandez, C., Armesto, J.I., Perez, S. (2005). Autómatas Programables, entorno y aplicaciones.

Control de Sistemas Discretos - Oscar Reinoso, Jose Sebastian, Rafael Aracil, Fernando Torres - 1era Edición. Editorial McGrawHill.

Franklin, G.F y J.D. Powelly A. Emani-Naeni, Control de sistemas dinámicos realimentados. 1991. 

Fundamentos de Control Automático de Sistemas Contínuos. Dr. Jorge Juan Gil Nobajas, Dr. Angel Rubio Díaz-Cordoves. Universidad de Navarra. http://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/7096/4/Gil-Control.pdf

PRACTICAS DE LA ASIGNATURA: http://lra.unileon.es/

LABORATORIO REMOTO DE AUTOMÁTICA: http://lra.unileon.es
Complementary

Creus, A. (1997). Instrumentación Industrial (6ª Edición)

Introducción a los autómatas programables . Grau,Antoni, (aut.). Editorial UOC, S.L. 1ª ed., 1ªimp.(09/2003). ISBN: 848429028X ISBN-13: 9788484290285.

Ogata, Katsuhiko. Ingeniería de Control Moderna. Prentice Hall

K. Ogata, "Discrete-time Control Systems", Prentice-Hall, 

ENLACES DE INTERÉS

LABORATORIO REMOTO DE AUTOMÁTICA: http://lra.unileon.es

COMITÉ ESPAÑOL DE AUTOMÁTICA: http://www.cea-ifac.es

INTERNACIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL: http://www.ifac-control.org/

IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS SOCIETY: http://www.ieee.org/

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