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Education and Innovation in Embedded Systems Design

USI Università della Svizzera italiana, USI Faculty of Informatics, Advanced Learning and Research Institute USI Università della Svizzera italiana USI Faculty of Informatics USI Advanced Learning and Research Institute

Implementation of Digital controllers

Professor Balemi Silvano
Course program MSc
Year 2
Semester Spring
Category Elective
ECTS 3
Academic year 2013/2014

Course type: Lecture
Value in ECTS: 3

Academic year 2013/2014 - Spring semester

Course synopsis
The increasing use of digital controllers allows an increased flexibility during operation, additional flexibility for modifications, and makes it possible to realise high performance controllers at low cost. Many possibilities exist for the implementation of digital controllers, from DSP to programmable components. The optimal solution can only be obtained collaboration in interdisciplinary teams. The objective of the course is to educate engineers to work in interdisciplinary teams in which embedded systems engineers are faced with control engineering issues. The students learn how to understand the issues connecting control design and embedded control systems, to communicate with control engineers and to master the tools and methods necessary to implement an embedded control system.

Contents

  • Review of mathematical tools and continuous-time models
  • Discrete-time signals
  • Sampled systems
  • Discrete-time controllers
  • Quantisation and ranges: sources, propagation and scaling
  • Sample rate selection
  • Implementation issues