The course will include as the first-third, material on transfer function, controller concepts, tuning and stability that are usually taught in a control class. The second-third of the course deals with MIMO control concepts at a basic level. The final-third of the course deals with performance assessment of SISO controllers.
Raghunathan Rengaswamy is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and a core member of the recently established Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and AI (RBC-DSAI) at IIT Madras. He is also a co-Founder and Director of Gyan Data Pvt. Ltd. (GDPL, identified as one of the top 10 start-ups to watch out for in 2018 by Analytics India Magazine), a high tech start-up in the area of data analytics located at IIT Madras Research Park. Recently, he co-founded GITAA Pvt. Ltd., a data science education company, incubated by the IITM Incubation Cell. Prior to this, he was Professor, Chemical Engineering and co-director of the Process Control and Optimization Consortium (PCOC) at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX USA, Associate and full Professor at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY and Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
COURSE LAYOUT:
Week 1 : Introduction Week 2 : Models for Control Week 3 : Analysis of Transfer Function Models Week 4 : Controllers and Closed Loop Transfer Functions Week 5 : Stability Analysis Week 6 : Controller Tuning – Stability Based Methods Week 7 : Controller Tuning – Direct Synthesis Week 8 : Traditional Multivariable Control Week 9 : Model Predictive Control Fundamentals Week 10 : Model Predictive Control Implementation Week 11 : Controller Performance Assessment and Diagnosis Fundamentals Week 12 : Controller Performance Assessment and Diagnosis Implementation
SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:
Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control, Babatunde Ogunnaike and W. Harmon Ray ISBN-13: 978-0195091199 ISBN-10: 0195091191.
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
The exam is optional for a fee.
Date and Time of Exams: April 28th 2019 (Sunday) Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 8 out of 12 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
