14.

Industrial Electronics and Robotics:

Revision and discussion of semiconductor devices such as

diodes, transistors,
power transistors with reference to their terminal characteristics.
Switches: Manually, Mechanically, Electromechanically (such as
Relays and
soleniods) and Electronically operated switches.
Electronic Switches; Shockely diods, Diac, SCR, Triac, SBS, SUS
etc.
Time Delay Circuits: Passive and active time delay circuits.
Phase Shift Control: SCR and Triac circuits for phase shift control.
Motor and Motor Control: DC, Stepper, AC and Servo Motors
construction
characteristics and parameters, methods of Electronic Motor
control.
Transducers: Temperature, Humidity, Pressure, Displacement,
Flow and Level.
Process Control: Process characteristics, On-Off, Proportional,
Integral,
Differential and PID controllers.
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC): Symbolic representation
of various
switches and sensors in control systems. Design of sequential
control using
Ladder Logic. Architecture of PLC, Comparison between general
purpose computer and PLC, Instruction Set, Languages such as
Statement List (STL),
Functional Block Diagrams (FBD) and Graphical Flow.
Robotics: Classification, Characteristics, workenvelope etc
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1. Timothy J. Maloney, Modern Industrial Electronics, 4th Edition,
2001,
Prentice Hall
2. Colin D. Simpson, Industrial Electronics, 1 Edition,x 1996,
Prentice Hall
3. Edition, James W. Maas, Industrial Electronics,x1995, Prentice
Hall
4. James T. Humphires and Leslie P. Sheets, Industrial
Electronics. 3rd
Edition, Delmer Publishers, 1989.
5. Charles A. Schuler, W.L.McNamee, Modern Industrial
Electronics. 2nd
Edition, McGraw Hill, 1993.
6. John Webb, Industrial Electronics, Maxwell Macmillan.
7. Chute and Chute, Industrial Electronics, McGraw Hill.
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8. John Webb, Programmable Logic Controllers, Principles and
Applications. 2nd Edition, Maxwell Macmillan.
9. G. B. Rutkowski, Modern Industrial Electronics, John Wiley,
1993
10. Thomas, Rectifier, Converters and AC Controllers, Oxford
Univ., 1994
11. Mohan, Undeland and Robbins, Power Electronics, John
Wiley, 1994
12. Charles A.Davis, Industrial Electronics Design and
Applications,
Charles Merrill Co. 1973.
13. James T. Humpheries and Leslie P. Sheets, Industrial
Electronics,
Delmar Pub. Co. (USA) 1989.
14. C. A. Schuler and W. L. McNamee, Modern Industrial
Electronics,
McGraw Hill, New York, 1993
15. Charles A. Schuler and William L. McNamee, Industrial
Electronics and
Robotics, McGraw Hill, 1986.
16. J. L. Fuller, Robotics, Maxell & Macmillan, New York, 1991