ELFT2500 Embedded Systems and Instrumentation Course description

The course deals with sensors, measurement techniques, and important elements of industrial automation. The course also is an introduction to programmable logic controller (PLC) programming. 

Builds on ELPE1300 Electric Circuits, MEK1400 Physics, MEK1000 Mathematics 1000, ELI2300 Dynamic systems

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:  

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of:

• systemisation and industrial instrumentation

• automation and IT layers at an industrial plant (Field, Control, Supervision, Planning, and Management) 

• physical principles of different instruments   

• principles of data acquisition systems (data/signal conditioning, classification of instrumentation error, different calibration techniques) 

• PLC systems: Components of PLC, Input/Output devices of PLC 

• principles of PLC programming 

• Industrial Internet of Things (IoT)  

  Skills

The student is capable of:  

• setting up simple automation plan  

• providing a solution for measurement of different variables in automation process  

• providing solution to minimize the measurement errors 

• suggesting a PLC system with required I/O devices 

• programming basic PLC programs for automation tasks 

General competence

The student is capable of:  

• setting up a general automation plan 

• setting up a basic data acquisition system 

• developing simple PLC programs  

Lectures and laboratory assignments are central. The laboratory teaching is built to support the classroom teaching and for hands on contact with a number of products and solutions used in the industry.

The teaching consists of lectures combined with exercises, laboratory assignments and a small project

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

• 4 compulsory hand-in exercises. estimimated time 4 hours on each exercise
• 4 lab assignments with submission, estimimated time 5 hours on each assignment.
• 1 project in groups (10 hours per student)

Individual written exam, 3 hours

The exam result can be appealed.

In the event of a resit or rescheduled exam, an oral examination may be used instead. In case an oral exam is used, the examination result cannot be appealed.

Exam is "Open book"

Grade scale A-F.

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.