Unit
- Course
- Mechanical engineering
- Study-unit Code
- A002379
- Curriculum
- Energia
- Teacher
- Lucio Postrioti
- Teachers
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- Lucio Postrioti
- Hours
- 72 ore - Lucio Postrioti
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- ING-IND/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Data acquisition systems basics. Electro-mechanic actuators: principles and technologies. Sensors basics. Controllers basics: the system-controller interaction, PID control strategy. Electro-mechanical systems used for engine control: ECU operation. Electro-mechanical systems used for engine emission control. Recent developments of injection systems and technolgies for emissions control. Hybrid-vehicles, and energy storage systems: basics.
- Reference texts
- - R.H. Bishop, Mechatronics An Introduction, Taylor&Francis - K. Reif: Gasoline Engine Management, Springer Vieweg - K. Reif: Diesel Engine Management, Springer Vieweg - Lecture notes from the Lecturer
- Educational objectives
- The main goal of the coarse is introducing the Student the mechatronic technologies currently used for both gasoline and Diesel internal combustion engines management; the focus is on technologies enabling the pollutants and CO2 emissions mitigation. Specific tasks are the data acquisition systems and electro-mechanical systems control for automotive industry. Hybrid and electric vehicles basics are analyzed.
- Prerequisites
- The Student is supposed to have an adequate knowledge of basic thermodynamics and internal combustion engine operation as desumed by the Fluid Machinery-Energy Systems and Internal Combustion Engines courses.
- Teaching methods
- -Frontal teaching -Seminars and industry visits; -Laboratory activities.
- Other information
- n.a.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination or written test with open questions. For info about the support offered to students with special needs, please visit: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
- Extended program
- Data acquisition systems: measurement chain, signal types, A/D and D/A conversion, vertical and horizontal resolution. Triggering systems. Comparison of PC-based and traditional acquisition systems. LabVIEW graphical programming language structure and its main functions. A typical PC-based acquisition system built in LabVIEW environment. Mechatronic systems overall structure. The control system functions and typical architectures for the control software. Sensors Basics. Active/passive sensors, analog/digital sensors. Displacement, rotation, flux, force, torque, pressure, temperature proximity sensors. General concepts: measurement range, sensitivity, natural frequency, bias, accuracy, precision. Electromechanical actuators basics: electrodynamics and electromagnetic principles. AC, DC and stepper motors: basic principles and equations. Basics of sontrol systems and strategies. The process characteristic curve. Proportional, integral and derivative control strategies. PID regulators and their tuning. Internal combustion engines control strategies: the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) operation and its main functions. Air flux, ignition and injection control structures. Emission control structure. On Board Diagnostic function. Electromechanical technologies used for Internal combustion engines control: injection systems and catalytic converters operation. Recent developments in the emission control and efficiency improvements for internal combustion engines. Hybrid vehicles: basic concepts, classification in series and parallel architectures. Operation strategies (basics). Mechatronic systems modeling. The lumped parameters modeling in the 0D/1D simulation environment. Some examples of mixed fluid and electromagnetic actuators modeled in Amesim and/or GTPower. Laboratory class: building a PC-based PID regulator to control the fluid pressure in a hydraulic system. System architecture analysis, definition of the control strategy and PID tuning.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- 7 - Affordable and clean energy. 13. Climate Action.