Study Guide

Objective

To participate in and complete a project in some area of the industrial automation process. The student group will learn to identify and describe the problem/task, propose, plan and implement a solution approach, evaluate and assess the result and report on the findings.

Knowledge and understanding
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
- identify and explain the problem/task and a possible solution approach
- discuss and compare different solution approaches

Skills and abilities
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
- propose and plan possible solution approaches
- create an intelligent system for automation
- apply and experiment with different techniques

Evaluation ability and approach
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
- report on and present the findings of the project
- evaluate and assess the project result
- propose possible improvements

Content

The explicit theme can vary from year to year. Examples of possible projects:
• use machine sound for anomaly detection (“machine hearing”)
• apply machine vision for intelligent decision making in automation
• develop and implement a small-scale real-time system
• set up an industrial communication protocol for process automation

Qualifications

No prerequisites

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Satisfactory skills in the project work

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good skills in the project work

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent skills in the project work