What is the automatic control doing?

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When it comes to the "automatic control" industry, generally everyone may think that it is related to big data, AI artificial intelligence, or to things like robots and robotic arms. In understanding, they probably know that it is a technology-related industry, but in fact, for automatic control What is the job content? But it's not very clear.
Today we, Long Zhong, are here to unveil the mystery of "automatic control" and share with you what we usually do!

 

What is automatic control?
Automatic control refers to industrial systems or production equipment that can perform automated operations according to the conditions or procedures preset by the original system, without requiring manual participation in the direct operation process.
There are a wide range of automatic control applications, ranging from household appliances, industrial production facilities, mass transportation... and so on, and even the field of agricultural greenhouse environmental control. Any field you can think of that can be "automated" may use automatic control. System to improve production or work efficiency, accuracy and safety. Introduction to various types of automation performance: Longzhong automation project performance cases

 

What are the job contents of an automatic control engineer?
For Longzhong, automatic control designers mainly research and design control systems related to motors, motors or sensing signal processing, and use PLC program logic controllers to write PLC control programs. Depending on customer needs, automatic alarm functions triggered by conditions, SCADA monitoring functions, and HMI human-machine integration functions may be added to the system to meet the needs of control systems in the industrial automation field. Details can be found at: Longzhong automatic control service projects.
Therefore, in practice, automatic control engineers will not only be exposed to hardware equipment and various machines on site, but also have professional capabilities in software writing, development and programming. Therefore, automatic control engineers also need to have sufficient Mature electricity-related knowledge, mechanical principles, and highly logical thinking abilities.

 

If you are interested in the career of "automatic control engineer", you usually need to take a series of basic and professional courses in high school or college to build the necessary skills and knowledge.

What are the main subjects studied in the Autonomous Control Department at the university?
1. Control theory: basic theories and methods of control system design such as feedback control, system modeling, stability analysis, etc.
2. Circuits and Electronics: Develop a fundamental understanding of circuits, electronic components, and electronic systems.
3. Mathematics and numerical methods: including calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, numerical methods, etc. These are vital to automatic control engineers and are the basic tools needed to analyze system dynamics and design controllers.
4. Signals and Systems: Introduces the basic principles of signal processing, including the representation and analysis of continuous and discrete-time signals, as well as the frequency domain and time domain characteristics of the system.
5. Electric machines and electromechanical systems: Provide an understanding of electromechanical components and systems such as motors, motors, and sensors.
In addition to these required courses, one can also take other professional courses to expand their knowledge, such as: machine adaptive control, machine learning, etc. Practical courses related to practical laboratory operations are also indispensable courses for students in the automatic control department.

※ The above information comes from ChatGPT. The detailed syllabus content is subject to the course information in major institutions.

 

With the advancement of science and technology, more and more knowledge and techniques need to be learned in the automation professional field. Having introduced the above information, do you know more about automatic control?
Over the years, Longzhong's engineers have been constantly honing and learning in the automatic control industry, striving for excellence. They have accumulated practical experience in various aspects, which has been internalized into our strong team strength, and at the same time, it has also met the various automation needs of customers. .

 

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