Instrumentation & Control

The Instrumentation & Control course covers a range of topics essential for understanding control systems and instrumentation. It includes the study of transducers like resistive, capacitive, and inductive types, and their applications. Signal conditioning and data acquisition systems are explored, focusing on operational amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, and digital-to-analog/analog-to-digital conversion. The course also delves into control systems, including open-loop and closed-loop systems, transfer functions, stability analysis, and the use of Laplace transforms. It further covers dynamic system analysis, time response, and stability criteria, including Routh’s criterion. Additionally, students study various control actions such as proportional, integral, and derivative control, including the implementation of PID controllers using operational amplifiers. Practical experiments complement the theory, with hands-on sessions on transducers, control systems, and various types of controllers.