Didactics of Automation

Course guarantor:

Milan Hofreiter

Lecturer:

Milan Hofreiter

Tutor:

Milan Hofreiter, Pavel Trnka

Supervisor:

Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Synopsis:

The course deals with the field of automation technology and its didactics, utilizing practical demonstrations. Students will be introduced to methods suitable for teaching selected topics in automation, ways of reviewing the material with pupils, and methods for assessing their knowledge. Didactic preparation for verifying and strengthening knowledge of the discussed topics, along with deepening practical experience, will be carried out through experiments on real-world tasks in the automatic control laboratory and on virtual models in the computer laboratory.

The course serves as a preparation for teaching topics in the field of Automatic Control. The lectures will be accompanied by practical examples from industry. All topics will be supplemented by practical exercises on real-world tasks, emphasizing a didactic approach to solving model examples.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Fundamental concepts of automatic control. Strategies for stimulating pupils' interest in the subject matter. Teaching formats suitable for various levels of pupils' knowledge and motivation.

2. System identification.

3. Static properties of systems.

4. Linear dynamic system models.

5. Logic control combinational logic functions.

6. Logic control sequential logic functions.

7. System transfer functions, block diagram algebra.

8. P-I-D controllers.

9. Control loops, controller selection.

10. Frequency properties.

11. System stability.

12. P-I-D controller tuning. Digital P-S-D controller.

13. Designing a custom assignment suitable for pupils. Methods of assessing pupils' knowledge.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Hofreiter, M.: Základy automatického řízení [Fundamentals of Automatic Control]. Prague, CTU lecture notes, 2023.

Hofreiter, M.: Základy automatického řízení příklady [Fundamentals of Automatic Control Examples]. Prague, CTU lecture notes, 2023.

Materials on the course website.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2026/2027:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri	roomT4:A1-505e Hofreiter M. 09:00–10:30 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice roomT4:A1-505e Hofreiter M. Trnka P. 10:45–12:15 (parallel nr.1) Dejvice roomT4:C1-111 Hofreiter M. Trnka P. 10:45–12:15 (parallel nr.1) Dejvice

Time-table for summer semester 2026/2027:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: