| | Principles of measurement systems, electrical measurement, uncertainty analysis, noise, systematic and random errors in measurement systems, measurement equipment. | 3 |
| | The design of mechatronic systems, including the selection of suitable actuators and tranducers. Includes a practical project design and implementation of a mechatronic system. Has an internal laboratory of 10 experiements reinforcing the theoretical concepts. | 5 |
| | General introduction to the use of transducers. Overview of signal conditioning circuits. Transducer technologies. the measurement and selection of tranducers for temperature, pressure, flow, level, strain, force, displacement, viscosity, moisture, humidity and acceleration. Practical project included to allow student to further explore the topics covered. Internal laboratory with 5 experiments. | 4 |
| | Introduction to drives in elevator systems. Basics mechanics and inertia, speed profiling, drive basics and stability, four quadrant operation, variable voltage drives, variable frequency drives, electrical braking, mechanical braking, feedback devices (shaft encoders), lift motor sizing and selection. Practical project on the design of a lift system. | 5 |
| | Introduction to electrical building services engineering, including elevators (traffic analysis and hardware design), fire fighting and alarm systems in buildings, egress analysis in buildngs, lighting design in buildings, conductor sizing and selection for electrical installtions. | 5 |
| | Five experiments in the area of instrumentation and five experiments in teh area of control. Measurement experiments include measurement of resistance using the VA method, design of a millivoltmeter, earth resistance testing, use of thermocouples, use of the function generator and the oscilloscope. Control experiments include position servo control system, analgue computer use for simulation, process control simulation, system identification. | 4 |
| | Introduction to control systems; the need for feedback; block diagrams; block diagram reduction; the Laplace Transform; deriving the transfer function for first order systems; deriving the transfer function for second order systems; time domain specifications; the Root Locus method; design of control systems using the root locus method; frequency response methods; the Bode Plot; phase and gain margins and stability. | 4 |
| | Differential Equations; the Laplace Transform; initial conditions; electrical systems; mechanical translational systems; mechanical rotational systems; fluidic systems; thermal systems; first order systems; second order systems; time domain response; State space representation; block diagram reduction. | 3 |
| | Modelling systems in State space; controllable canonical form; observable canonical form; diagonal canonical form; Jordan canonical form; controllability; observability; pole placement; controller design; observer design. | 4 |
