Advanced Instrumentation Control

1. Introduction, principle, construction and design of various active and passive transducers. Introduction to semiconductor sensors and its applications.

2. Design of signal conditioning circuits for various Resistive, Capacitive and Inductive transducers and piezoelectric transducer.

3. Special Control Techniques: Advanced control techniques, cascade, ratio, feed forward, adaptive control, Smith predictor, internal model control.

4. Multivariable Control Analysis: Introduction to state-space methods, , Control degrees of freedom analysis and analysis, Interaction, Bristol arrays, Niederlinski index - design of controllers, Tuning of multivariable controllers.

5. Sample Data Controllers: Basic review of Z transforms, Response of discrete systems to various inputs. Open and closed loop response to step, impulse and sinusoidal inputs, closed loop response of discrete systems. Design of digital controllers. Introduction to PLC and DCS.