Overview
This unit will introduce you to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system design and development using industry standard SCADA software. You will also learn how to analyse system requirements for a given mechatronics system task, evaluate and select mechatronics modules and components from a pool of mechatronics modules and components. You will design custom components and fabricate them, develop concept designs and select the best option, design and develop a mechatronics solution for a given complex task. You will also program the developed mechatronics system using industry standard control systems and SCADA software, and commission the system. In this unit, you must complete compulsory practical activities. Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for proposed dates.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: ENEX13001 Instrumentation and Industrial Automation AND ENEX13003 Design of Mechatronics Elements
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2024
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Verbal feedback at Residential School
The five-day Residential School length helped to complete the project.
The Residential School should be scheduled for the same length.
Feedback from Verbal feedback at Residential School
The Video Tutorials on each single LabView task is very helpful.
The video tutorials should be made available and additional video tutorials should be made upon specific requests during the term.
- Apply skills in industry standard data acquisition and control software to acquire sensor signals and control actuators
- Apply the design process to propose a mechatronics system for a real-world application
- Assemble a mechatronics system designed and fabricated from custom components
- Develop industry-standard control systems and SCADA systems to operate the designed mechatronic system
- Work individually and collaboratively in teams, communicate professionally using mechatronics engineering terminology, symbols and diagrams that conform to Australian and international standards.
The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers in the areas of 1. Knowledge and Skill Base, 2. Engineering Application Ability and 3. Professional and Personal Attributes at the following levels:
Intermediate
Advanced
Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for further information on the Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers and course level mapping information
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 25% | |||||
| 3 - Portfolio - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Portfolio - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Access to a document scanner and a software that can create pdf documents
- LabView 2019 or latest (provided by CQU)
- A computer with speaker & microphone, Microsoft Windows OS(10 or later) with admin rights to install software, and good internet connectivity
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
d.preethichandra@cqu.edu.au
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- Introduction to Mechatronics Systems Design
- Introduction to LabView
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- Kinematics of robotic systems
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- 3-D Design and analysis of robotic systems
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- LabVIEW - Virtual Instruments
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- LabVIEW - MathScripts
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- LabVIEW - Editing and Debugging Virtual Instruments
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- LabVIEW - Programming Structures
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- LabVIEW - Sub VIs, Hardware Interfacing
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- LabVIEW - Arrays and Clusters
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Residential School at the Mackay Ooralea Campus
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- LabVIEW - Charts and Graphs
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- LabVIEW - Data Acquisition
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- Advanced Mechatronics Systems and Future Opportunities
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Students need to purchase the necessary embedded microcontroller board, sensors, actuators and accessories for the projects.
1 Written Assessment
Students will design mechanical components for a given mechatronics system. The designed mechanical hardware will be analyzed for steresses using CAD simulation tools. Each student will do an individual design and will submit the drawings and data files suitable for 3d-printing of individual element.
Specific design requirements will be available on Moodle.
Week 5 Wednesday (3 Apr 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 7 Wednesday (24 Apr 2024)
Marked assignment with feedback. However, there will be no model answers provided as this is a design.
To obtain full marks students must address the design problem systematically and develop their individual design as per the relevant design standards and rules. All design assumptions must be clearly mentioned and justified. Need to explain the design process by providing a soft copy of student work book as an evidence of chronological development of the design solution. Submitting a design file without evidence for development process will receive only up to a maximum of 70% of the allocated marks for this assignment.
All drawings and writing must be clear and legible. Must provide the final design as a soft copy which will run on 3D-CAD without any modifications (all needed sub components must be included in the submission with proper directory structure).
- Assemble a mechatronics system designed and fabricated from custom components
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
2 Practical Assessment
Students will design virtual instruments for various tasks. Each student will do their own individual designs and will submit the LabVIEW VI file compatible files to run on LabView2019 or later.
Specific virtual instrument requirements will be available in the assignment on Moodle.
Week 7 Wednesday (24 Apr 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 9 Wednesday (8 May 2024)
Marked assignment with feedback. However, there will be no model answers provided as this is a design.
To obtain full marks students must address the design problem systematically and develop their individual design as per the relevant design standards and rules. Since this is an individual design and there are multiple options available in LabView for the same task, every design must be unique. All design assumptions must be clearly mentioned and justified. Need to explain the design process by providing a soft copy of student work book as an evidence of chronological development of the design solution. Submitting the final design file without evidence for development process will receive only up to a maximum of 70% of the allocated marks for this assignment.
All drawings and writing diagrams must be clear and legible. Must provide the final design as a soft copy which will run on LabVIEW without any modifications( all needed sub components must be included in the submission with proper directory structure).
- Apply skills in industry standard data acquisition and control software to acquire sensor signals and control actuators
- Apply the design process to propose a mechatronics system for a real-world application
- Develop industry-standard control systems and SCADA systems to operate the designed mechatronic system
- Work individually and collaboratively in teams, communicate professionally using mechatronics engineering terminology, symbols and diagrams that conform to Australian and international standards.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
3 Portfolio
The main project is to develop a mobile robotic platform with obstacle avoidance and move along a prescribed path. It will be carried out individually for the assembly and testing of your robot. However, the entire group will work on testing each type of sensor and actuator on the system working individually as well as working together before installing them on the individual robot. Once the individual sensors and actuators are calibrated, they will be fitted on the mobile platform, students will load their own program for the given task and tested by individual students. Your portfolio will have two parts where the first part is about the sensor and actuator calibrations in the group and the second part is your individual program to control your own robot.
Week 12 Wednesday (29 May 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
The portfolio will not be returned until the unit grades are released as there is no final examination for this unit.
To obtain full marks students must;
- Provide all required components of the portfolio (a detailed document is available on Moodle)
- Provide the Labview control program developed by the individual student
- Provide a report discussing the control behaviour of the mechatronics system using their own LabView program
- Provide a report on all laboratory experiments conducted with detailed discussion
- Apply skills in industry standard data acquisition and control software to acquire sensor signals and control actuators
- Apply the design process to propose a mechatronics system for a real-world application
- Assemble a mechatronics system designed and fabricated from custom components
- Develop industry-standard control systems and SCADA systems to operate the designed mechatronic system
- Work individually and collaboratively in teams, communicate professionally using mechatronics engineering terminology, symbols and diagrams that conform to Australian and international standards.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
