Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

To expand qualifications in classic control and to introduce modern control methods based on state space description.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Control of large scale systems e.g. sugar production, power production, cement production
• Control of unit operations: e.g. boiler control, evaporation control, distillation control, energy transport control, reactor control, heat exchanger control.

Skills

• Control of large scale systems
• Anti-integrator windup
• Reduced order observers

Competences

• Root locus design
• Digital control methods
  • Design by emulation
  • Discrete design
• Time delays
• State space control
  • Poles and zeros of state space models
  • State space transformations
  • Controllability
  • State feedback design
  • Observability
  • Observer gain design
  • Observer based control
  • Separations theorem
  • Integral state space control
  • Zero assignment
  • Reference input

Type of instruction

As described in § 17.

Exam

Exams