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CMP4102 Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Contact Weighted Weighted Weighted Credit


Period per Hour per Total Mark Exam Mark Continuous Units
Week Semester Assessment
Mark
LH PH TH CH WTM WE WCM CU
45 30 00 60 100 60 40 4
Rationale
The computer is an electronic device whose design and manufacture utilizes a great deal of
instrumentation and control engineering concepts. A student of computer engineering has to
be exposed to the relevance of these fundamental concepts in the design of computer circuitry.
Objectives
This course aims at:

 Enabling student understand that control systems are a daily phenomena,


that virtually everything needs feedback, that electronic or electromechanical
systems most times include a feedback loop, either explicitly or implicitly.

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 Giving the student knowledge of analog and digital control engineering concepts.
This course aims to help the student with:
 Knowledge of procedures for measuring and improving the reliability of
digital components within measuring systems.
 Knowledge of the formal standards governing instrument calibration
procedures and measurement system performance.
 An introduction on the topic of sensors and their use within
instrumentation systems.
 Knowledge of the principles and theory of measurement

Course Content
1. Review of Measurement Specification
 Standards, units- instrument types
 performance characteristics: static and dynamic characteristic
2. Measuring system
3. Analogue Instruments
 Moving coil,
 iron instruments
4. Digital Instruments
 Multimeters
 data analysers
 signal synthesisers.
5. Counters and timers
6. Measuring Errors
 Random errors
 Systematic errors
7. Transducers
 Measurement of displacement
 velocity and acceleration
 time and frequency
 light,
 temperature, volume, pressure, flow and force
8. Analogue Data Processing
 The operational amplifier
 Characteristics
 Configurations
9. Simulation of differential equations and transfer function
10. Data Acquisition and Conversion
 Sampling theorem
 Quantisation
 Multiplexing
 filtering sample and hold
 Bridge Circuits
11. Introduction to design of feedback systems
 Properties and advantages of feedback systems
12. Time-Domain And Frequency-Domain Performance Measures
13. Stability And Degree Of Stability
14. Complex Plane Analysis
 Algebra
 Applications to Control Engineering
15. Stability Criteria

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 Routh’s Criterion
 Root locus method
 Nyquist criterion
16. Bode Plots
 Introduction
 Frequency response analysis
17. Unit Circle
 PID Compensator
 time response
18. State Space Analysis
 Observability
 Controllability and the corresponding vectors
19. Digital Control System
 z transforms
 Jury Test
Learning Outcomes

The student will:


 Be able to comfortably check for stability of any system using any criteria.
 Understand the concept of control system engineering, why it is carried out and will
appreciate its application in digital control.
 Acquire knowledge of the type of measuring instruments and be able to appreciate why
certain instruments are m ore favourable in a particular environment and requirement
(accuracy or precision among others);
 Understand the types of errors that occur during measurement and how best they can be
minimised during experimental setup.
 Acquire concepts on sensors and their use in design of automated systems.
Recommended Books and References
nd
[1] William L. Brogan, Modern Control Theory, 2 ed., Prentice-Hall, 1985

[2] Nise, N. S, Control Systems Engineering, 3rd ed., New York, NY: Wiley, 2000.
rd
[3] Allan S. Morris, Measurement and Instrumentation Principles, 3 ed., Butterworth
Heinemann, 2001
[4] K. Ogata, Discrete- Time Control Systems

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