Industrial Automation
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The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Automation (subject code DI04024061) as prescribed for AI & DS · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 55 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (DI04024061)Unit 1 Introduction to Automation
- Automation: Definition
- Mechanization vs Automation
- Social Issues
- Low-Cost Automation
- Types of Automation
- Current Emphasis
- Reasons for Automation
- Reasons for No Automation
- Issues for Automation in Factory Operations
- Strategies for Automation
Unit 2 Introduction to PLC
- PLC: Introduction
- Block Diagram and functions
- Programming Languages
- Selection Criteria
- PLC v/s Relay Control
- PC v/s PLC, commercially available PLC Brands
- Delta EX2 Series
- I/O module: Classification
- Parallel I/O System
- Serial I/O System
- Sinking and Sourcing in PLC Interfacing
Unit 3 Basic Ladder Programming
- Ladder diagram: Rules for PLC ladder diagrams
- Logic Gates Diagram
- Combinational circuit Diagram with the help of Truth Table and Equation
- Logical Equation and statement-based diagram
- Programming using Latching- Unlatching and Interlock Concept
Unit 4 Robotics
- Industrial Robot
- Laws of Robotics
- Motivating Factors
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Robots
- Characteristics of an Industrial Robot
- Components of an Industrial Robot
- Comparison of the Human and Robot Manipulator
- Robot Wrist and End of Arm Tools
- Robot Terminology
- Robotic Joints
- On the Basis of Co-Ordinate Systems
- Power Source
- Method of Control
- Programming Method
- Robot: Selection
- Work cell
- Machine Vision
- Robotics and Machine Vision
- Accidents and Safety
Unit 5 Communications
- Communication interface: Simplex
- Half duplex
- Full duplex
- RS 232- DB- 25 connector
- DB-9 connector
- RS 422, EIA 485 interface
- Industrial network: Bus topology
- Ring topology
- Star topology
- Tree topology
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