- knowledge on analysis of elements of automatic regulation and control systems according to their functional purposes;
- knowledge of static and dynamical characteristics of elements of automatic regulation and control systems;
- knowledge of influence of adjustment parameters on the operation of direct action regulators and proportional-integral regulators both in statics and in dynamics;
- knowledge of classification of controllers according to the control laws and according to a number of other features;
- knowledge on analysis of controlled objects according to their main properties and on defining their parameters for quantitative estimation of their properties;
- knowledge of how to chose an automatic controller and to calculate its adjustment parameters depending on the properties of the controlled object in order to provide the needed pattern of the transient process in the automatic control system.

Prerequisites:
- Further Mathematics;
- Physics;
- Engineering Drawing.

Co-requisites:
- Automatic Control Theory;
- Automation Devices;
- Actuators and Control Valves;
- Identification and Simulation of Technological Objects in Chemical and Food Industries;
- Identification and Simulation of Technological Objects in Power Engineering.

Functional purposes of elements of automatic regulation and control systems. Static and dynamical characteristics of elements of automatic regulation and control systems. Construction and operation of direct action regulators. Construction and operation of proportional-integral regulators. Classification of controllers according to the control laws. Main properties of controlled objects. Influence of controlled objects properties and controller adjustment parameters on the pattern of the transient process.

1. Fundamentals of Automatics and Automation: tutorial / Y. Pistun, I. Stasiuk – Lviv: Publishing House of Lviv Polytechnic, 2014. – 336 p (in Ukrainian).
2. Sharkov A. A. Automatic Control and Controllers. – Moscow: Chemistry, 1990 (in Russian).
3. Klyuyev A. S. Automatic Control. – Moscow: Energy, 1973 (in Russian).
4. Gerasimov S. G. Theoretical Fundamentals of Automatic Control of Thermal Processes. Part 1. – Moscow: Higher School, 1967 (in Russian).
5. Kargu L. I. et al. Fundamentals of Automatic Regulation and Control. – Moscow: Higher School, 1974 (in Russian).
6. Polotskiy L. M., Lapshenkov G. I. Fundamentals of Automatics and Automation of Production Processes in Chemical Industry. – Moscow: Chemistry, 1973 (in Russian).
7. Tucker G. K., Wills D. M. Simplified Methods of Automatic Control Systems Analysis. – Moscow-Leningrad: Gosenergoizdat, 1963 (in Russian).

- written reports on laboratory works, oral questioning, design and drawing work (40%);
- final control (control measure - credit): written and oral form (60%).