Factory Automation advanced students will learn how to identify, model, program, control, validate, verificate, orchestrate, choreograph and architect manufacturing systems. In particular, the discipline of Factory Automation makes it possible to build the next generation of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, with special focus on the important role of applied Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Students who graduate from Factory Automation can expect to work for different stakeholders of the added-value chain of industrial automation, including not only manufacturers but also automation suppliers, machine builders and system integrators.
The objective of advanced studies for factory automation is to train students in specific disciplines of the field. The advanced studies are firstly aimed at providing profound know-how on the latest industrial technologies available. Most importantly, the advanced studies are intended to train students in practices that are prerequisites for innovation and for performing professional and/or academic research and technical development within the field.
See the Factory Automation and Systems Technology Lab, FAST.
Compulsory Courses
TTE-5036 Control in Robotics and Automation 6cr
TTE-5306 Control in Robotics and Automation: Advanced Course 5cr
TTE-5317 Factory Information Systems 5cr
TTE-5326 Factory Communication Systems 6cr
TTE-5707 Special Assignment in Factory Automation 7cr
Total 29cr
Complementary Courses
Please select courses from the list to complete the study block`s requirement (35cr)
ACI-42086 Optimal and Robust Control System Design with Matlab 7cr
TTE-5107 Design of Robot Systems 5cr
TTE-5406 Formal Methods in Factory Automation 5cr
TTE-5416 Automation Technologies for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 2cr
TTE-5506 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Machines 5cr
Minor studies in Micromachines
Students in Factory Automation major will study Mechatronics and Micromachines as their minor. The minor in Mechatronics and Micromachines focuses on mechatronic actuation systems and their control. The minor covers electro-mechanical and hydraulic servo systems and actuator systems based on smart materials, such as piezoelectric and shape memory materials. Depending on the interests of the student, the minor can be tuned with microsystem, sensor and design studies.
Compulsory Courses
ACI-42076 System Identification 5cr
ACI-51306 Microrobotics and microactuators 5cr
IHA-3206 Servo Systems 5cr
MIT-4037 Microsensors 6cr
Total 21cr
Complementary Courses
Please select courses from the list to complete the study block`s requirement (25cr)
ACI-42086 Optimal and Robust Control System Design with Matlab 7cr
ACI-51006 Introduction to Microsystem Technology 4cr
IHA-2308 Hydraulic Machines 5cr
MEC-2436 Finite Element Method 6cr
MEC-3016 Mechanical Vibrations 6cr
MEC-3056 Simulation of Machine Systems 6cr
MEC-3266 Monitoring and Diagnostics 6cr
MEC-3287 Noise Control 4cr
MEC-3326 Mechatronics Components and Instrumentation 5 cr
MEC-3356 Design of Mechatronic Systems 5cr
MIT-4016 Sensor Physics 7cr
MOL-3416 Electron Microscopy 5cr
TTE-5516 Machine Vision and Optical Measurements 6cr
TTE-6246 Micro and Desktop Manufacturing 6cr