1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Power Systems Stability
Cylindrical and salient rotors, direct and quadrature axes
components. Transient Stability: Rotor dynamics - the
swing equation, network configurations, equal area
criterion. Dynamic Stability: Linearisation of system
equations, state space representation.
Power System Control
Automatic voltage regulator and governor functions, digital
computer techniques
Protection Systems
Overcurrent protection. Instantaneous and inverse time.
Distance protection. Directional features. Machine
protection.
Circuit Interruption and Circuit Breakers: Arc
characteristics. Principles of circuit interruption. Circuit
breaker types. Standard specifications. Circuit breaker
testing.
Recommended reading
Electricity Council. Power Systent Protection. 2nd edn, Stevenage,
U.K., Peregrinus, 1981
Flurscheim, C.H. Power Circuit Breaku Theory and Design.
Stevenage, Hens Peregrinus for the Institution of Electrical
Engineers, 1975
Greenwood, A. Electrical Transients in Power Systems. New York,
Wiley-Interscience, 1971
Stevenson, W.D. Elements of Power System Analysis. 4th edn, New
York, McGraw-Hill, 1982
EE598 Digital Systems and Control
5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: EE489, SM494 Assessment: examination/
assignment
A final year subject in all stream of the degree of Bachelor of
Engineering (Electrical)
0 bjedives
To consolidate the work on systems and control in earlier
years by introducing sampling and discrete data in feedback
systems, the principles of process control and techniques of
computer based control including interfacing and data
acquisition.
Content
Design of control systems to meet a set of specifications.
Classical methods of lead-lag networks and PID controllers
from root locus and frequency domain approach.
Commercial packages and PLC's.
Algorithms suitable for compensation using computer based
control systems.
State variable feedback and design of continuous and discrete
time multivariable control systems to meet a set of
specifications.
Advanced topics of adaptive control and optimisation.
Recommended reading
Chase, F. Diaffram Sets in Process Control and Computer
Interfacing. 1989
Franklin. , G.F.. . Powell. T.D. and Workman. M.L. Di~ital Control
of Dynamic Systems. 2nzedn, Reading, ass., ~ddis&-wesley,
1990
Kuo, B. Digital Control Systems. Holt, New York, Rinehart and
Winston, 1980
Shinskey, F. Process Control Systems Application Design and
Tuning. 3rd edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1988
EE730 Engineering Software
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average Hawthorn
Prerequisites: must satisfy course entry requirements
Assessment: exam, computer based assessment and assignment
A subject in the Masters of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications, Computer Systems Engineering and
Biomedical Instrumentation)
0 b jedives
To introduce the fundamental concepts of computing and to
gain of proficiency in the application of the C programming
language for constructing solutions to engineering problems.
To develop a sound understanding of data structures,
algorithms for their manipulation and implementation of
these algorithms.
Content
Historical context of computing;
fundamental development of algorithms amenable to
programmatic implementation;
basis for structured programming;
program control structures, fundamental and derived
types in C;
implementation of algorithms in C;
pointer types and alternatives;
lists, stacks, queues, trees, and algorithms for the
manipulation of these structures;
efficiency of algorithms;
file types and organisation.
Recommended reading
Attikiouzel, J. &Jones, P.E. Cfor Electrical and Electronic
Engineers. Prentice Hall, 1991.
Kelly, A. and Pohl, I., A Book on C. Benjamin-Cummings
Publishing Company, 1989
Kernighan, B. & Ritchie, D., The C Programming Language.
Prentice-Hall, 2edn, 1988
Korsh, J.F. & Garrett, L.J., Data Structures, Algorithms, and
Program Style Using C. PWS-KENT 1988
Miller, L.H. & Quilici, A.E., Programming in C. John Wiley &
Sons, 1986
Pugh, K., A11 on C. Scott, Foresman and Company, 1990
EE732 Computer Architecture and Hardware
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week average
Hawthorn Prerequisites: must satisfy course entry
requirements Corequisites: nil Assessment: exam,
assignment and laboratory
A subject in the Masters of Engineering by coursework
(Telecommunications, Computer Systems Engineering and
Biomedical Instrumentation)
0 b jedives
To introduce:
the basic architecture and implementation of
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