COURSE CODE: ELE 403
COURSE TITLE: Servomechanism and Control
NUMBER OF UNITS: 3 Units
COURSE DURATION: Three hours per week
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Coordinator: Engr. (Miss) NUGA, Olubusola Olufunke B.Eng., M.Sc.
E-mail: nugabusola@yahoo.co.uk
Office Location: Elect/Elect. Engineering Building
Other Lecturers: Nil
COURSE SYNOPSIS:
Control system concept: open and closed loop control systems, block diagrams. Resume of Laplace transform. Transfer functions of electrical and control systems. Electromechanical devices: Simple and multiple gear trains, electrical and mechanical analysis. Error detector and transducer in control systems. The amplidyne: AC and DC tachogenerator and servomotors, rotary and translational potentiometers. Hydraulic and pneumatic servomotors and controllers.Dynamics of simple servomechanism. Steady state error and error constants, the use of non-dimensional notations and the frequency response test. Log and polar plots of control systems.Basic stability concepts in control systems.