Module CS4660-KP04, CS4660

Process Control Systems (ProzFueSys)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Master Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019, optional subject, Module part Current Issues Robotics and Automation
  • Master Psychology 2016, optional subject, interdisciplinary competence
  • Master psychology 2013, optional subject, interdisciplinary competence
  • Master Media Informatics 2014, compulsory, computer science
  • Master Computer Science 2012, optional subject, specialization field robotics and automation
  • Master Computer Science 2012, compulsory, specialization field media informatics
  • Master Entrepreneurship in Digital Technologies 2020, optional subject, specific

Classes and lectures:

  • Process Control Systems (exercise, 1 SWS)
  • Process Control Systems (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 20 hours exam preparation
  • 45 hours in-classroom work
  • 55 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

  • Introduction and Overview
  • Incidents and Accidents
  • Error, Failure and Responsibility
  • Human Factors
  • Mental, conceptual and technical Models
  • Task Analysis and Task Modelling
  • Event Analysis and Event Modelling
  • Task Allocation
  • Situation Awareness
  • Diagnoses und Contingency
  • Interaction in real-time: Conception and Design
  • Risk and Safety
  • Operations and Safety

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • The students know the most important theories, methods and systems for monitoring and controlling processes.
  • They know the definitions of the terms risk and security and why they are applied in different ways.
  • They can assess what needs to be considered in the development of mission- and safety-critical human-machine systems and how to proceed methodically.

Grading through:

  • written exam

Responsible for this module:

Literature:

  • M. Herczeg : Prozessführungssysteme – Sicherheitskritische Mensch-Maschine-Systeme und Interaktive Medien zur Überwachung und Steuerung von Prozessen in Echtzeit München: de Gruyter - Oldenbourg-Verlag, 2014
  • M. Herczeg : Software-Ergonomie: Theorien, Modelle und Kriterien für gebrauchstaugliche interaktive Computersysteme 4. erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage. De Gruyter Studium, 2018
  • M. Herczeg : Interaktionsdesign München: Oldenbourg-Verlag, 2006
  • J. Reason : Human Error Boston: Cambridge University Press, 1990
  • J. Rasmussen, L. P. Goodstein, A. M. Peijtersen : Cognitive Systems Engineering New York: Wiley, 1994

Language:

  • offered only in German

Notes:

Prerequisites for attending the module:
- None


Prerequisites for the exam:
- Successful completion of homework assignments during the semester.

Last Updated:

06.01.2025