Industrial Communications

Code:

EEC0079

Acronym:

COMI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Telecommunications
OFICIAL	Automation, Control & Manufacturing Syst.

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Telecommunications
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Electrical and Computers Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEEC	70	Syllabus since 2007/2008	4	-	6	63	160

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- to understand the specificities of industrial communication compared to others, on the level of requirements which are needed and technologies used;
- To be acquainted and to define the most adequate technological solutions in the implementation of communication networks in systems of industrial automation;
- To analyse, specify, set and use industrial communication networks;
- To create applications using services available by different types of industrial networks;
- To define architectures of communication to integrate industrial applications situated to different levels, with different characteristics and requirements;

Program

- Introduction to industrial communications: concepts, framework, characteristics and functional requirements;
- Architectonic models: structure, layer characteristics and services;
- Transmission techniques and data communication; Control of data connection: error control mechanism; bit-oriented and character-oriented protocols;
- Typical industrial communications architectures: hierarchical structure and information flux characterization in different levels;
- Serial communication: RS-232, RS-485/422, modems
- Field, cell and factory networks: CAN, DeviceNet, Profibus-DP, Ethernet Industrial
- Networks of enterprise management and internet: TCP/IP, SMTP, DNS, HTTP, FTP
- Wireless networks: 802.11 and Zigbee

Complementary Bibliography

Zurawski, Richard 340; The industrial communication technology handbook. ISBN: 0-8493-3077-7
Stallings, William; Data and computer communications
Pimentel, Juan R.; Communications network for manufacturing. ISBN: 0-13-168576-7
Zurawski, Richard; The industrial information technology handbook, CRC Press, 2005

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes: presentation of the themes with discussion of case studies
Practical classes: they are a complement of the theoretical classes. Students have the opportunity to contact with technological solutions. Students have to do 3 group assignments (3 students) on one of the themes of the course.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	50,00
	Exame	2,50
	Trabalho escrito	48,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	75
	Total:	75,00

Eligibility for exams

- According to General Evaluation Rules of FEUP
- Students have to do the three assignments

Calculation formula of final grade

FM (Final Mark)
TC (Theoretical Component): Exam
PC (Practical Component): Assignments
PO: Professor’s Opinion

IF: (FM > 7.0) AND ( PC > 7.0)
{
FM = (10.0* TC + 9.0 * PC + 1.0*PO) /20.0
}
OTHERWISE
{
FM= Min{ 9.0, (10.0* TC + 9.0 * PC + 1.0*PO )/20.0}
}

(*) Marks (0-20)

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students, who did not attend to the practical component of the course, have to do a practical exam.
According to General Evaluation Rules of FEUP

Classification improvement

Students can only improve the theoretical component of the course (exam).