DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERVISORY CONTROLLERS IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS

Syllabus

Design of Supervisory Controllers for processes described with Discrete Event Systems: General, Static, and Dynamic Supervisors. Generalized Requirements for Safe and Efficient Operation in Supervisor Design. Supervisory Control Architectures: Modular Control, Decentralized Control, Hierarchical Control, Distributed Control. Simulation and Implementation of Supervisors: Implementation of Supervisors with Ladder, Structured Text and Function Block Diagrams, Industrial SCADA Systems, Implementation of Supervisors in SCADA systems, Representative applications of development of Supervisor Controllers in Industrial Processes using advanced technologies.

Learning Outcomes

Aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the description of rules regarding safe and desired operation of industrial systems of various categories, and the synthesis of dynamic supervisory schemes in various architectures like Modular Control, Decentralized Control, Hierarchical Control, and Distributed Control. The advantages of each architecture will be revealed through implementation in PLC programming languages and industrial SCADA environments. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Describe the desired operation in the form of rules that can be easily applied to systems of large scale and complex architecture, ensuring the implementability of the rules in industrial systems,
• Design supervisory control schemes, comprising large number of supervisors in the form of automata,
• Select the appropriate supervisory control architecture satisfying successful realization of safe and efficient performance,
• Implement supervisory control architectures in ladder logic, structured text, and function blocks for PLCs
• Implement supervisory control architectures in Visual Basic, C, or Python for SCADA systems,
• Emulate industrial system and the supervisory control schemes in PLC environments. 
   

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