Studyinfo subject ELFT2500 2022 HØST
ELFT2500 Embedded Systems and Instrumentation Course description
- Course name in Norwegian
- Innebygde systemer og instrumentering
- Study programme
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Bachelorstudium i ingeniørfag - elektronikk og informasjonsteknologi / Bachelorstudium i ingeniørfag - maskin
- Weight
- 10.0 ECTS
- Year of study
- 2022/2023
- Curriculum
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SPRING
2023
- Schedule
- Programme description
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- Course history
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Introduction
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.
Recommended preliminary courses
Builds on ELPE1300 Electric Circuits, MEK1400 Physics, MEK1000 Mathematics 1000, ELI2300 Dynamic systems
Required preliminary courses
No requirements over and above the admission requirements.
Learning outcomes
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
Teaching and learning methods
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
Course requirements
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)
Assessment
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.
Permitted exam materials and equipment
Exam is "Open book"
Grading scale
Grade scale A-F.
Examiners
One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.