Course Details

Special Physics

Academic Year 2024/25

NBB009 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

Automated measuring and control systems - Sensors and transducers. Implementation of input and output. Introduction to the measurement and control system. Theory of automation, measurement and regulation. Instructions for selected devices. Practical exercise. Microprocessor programming application using Python or Matlab.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction: - automation from the point of view of physics, computers in the measurement process, economic benefit, qualitative benefit.
2. Process automation
3. Microcontrollers - management, hardware, software
4. Control, bus, protocols
5. Mathematical logic, binary system, Boolean algebra, representation of numbers
6. Basics of electricity, circuits, electrical elements, simple electrical circuits in the process of automation, control and regulation
7. Sensors and converters between electrical and non-electric quantities: sensors of pressure, temperature, mechanical stress, changes in length, changes in volume.
amplifiers, filters, multiplexers, counters
8. Programming in Python or Matlab using instructions to control devices
9. Use of automation and regulation in the construction industry
10. Excursion: demonstration of specialized research instruments.
11. Processing of signals and data
12. Application for environmental development
13. Discussion, selection of student topics

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory