Description
Through completion of an applied project students willdevelop an understanding of the hardware, architecture and the
assembly language of microcontrollers in addition to the control of a
mechanical system with a programmable logic controller (PLC). The
unit looks at the applications of timers, interrupts and serial ports.
Furthermore, the general approach in designing a microcontroller in
mechanical systems will be studied. Students will use an Omron PLC
to control a factory represented by four pneumatic cylinders. After
covering the Ladder Logic programming language, they will move on to
cover sequential programming and numerical manipulation using PLCs.