Industrial Automation - IST MEEC/MEGE

Alternative Works to Do or Study, and Publicly Present

J. Gaspar

In this page some suggestions are provided to alternative works whose understanding allows doing an interesting presentation for the industrial automation course.

- Coloured Petri Nets, papers and demonstration software are available in the Internet

- Busy Beaver Turing Machines, lessons to take from the busy beaver machines?

- Discrete Differential Analyzer (DDA), making a simulator in Matlab or Simulink, or simply describing its historical origins are two interesting veins

- Networking with PLCs, description of protocols such as MODBUS or PROFIBUS, or simply communication packets analysis, are interesting subjects for a presentation

- CODESYS – industrial IEC 61131-3 PLC programming, https://www.codesys.com/, networking or running code generated by Matlab are two interesting veins

- PLC training software, 30days trial in http://www.realgames.pt

- IO Petri nets, http://gres.uninova.pt/IOPT-Tools-V1.2/login.php

- Electro-pneumatics "Pneutrainer 200", http://www.smctraining.com/webpage/indexpage/341/

- Arduino Science Journal, https://www.arduino.cc/education/science-journal

- Interfacing Arduino to PLC, freeware hardware and software are nowadays available

- Arduino Physical Computing Kit vs PLC, one kit is available for the students to test one or more sensors; list of Schneider PLC accessories is also available for comparing the hobby market with the industrial market