K.S.R.M.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(UGC-AUTONOMOUS)
Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India– 516 003
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Anantapuramu.
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TIME RESPONSE
1. What is an order of a system?
2. What is transient response? What is steady state response?
3. Define Damping ratio. List the time domain specifications.
4. What will be the nature of response of second order system with different types of
damping?
5. Define Steady state error. What is the drawback of static coefficients?
6. What are the effects of adding a zero to a system?
7. Consider the system shown in Fig. Determine the value of 'a' such that the damping ratio
is 0.5. Also obtain the values of the rise time 'tr' and maximum overshoot 'Mp' in its step
response.

8. Block diagram model of a position control system is shown in figure.

9. The block diagram of a feedback system is shown in Figure.

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(a) Find the closed loop transfer function.

(b) Find the minimum value of G for which the step response of the system would exhibit an
overshoot, as shown in Figure.
(c) For G equal to twice this minimum value, find the time period T indicated in Figure.

Signal Flow Graph and Block Diagram

1. Draw a signal flow graph for the following set of algebraic equations:

Hence, find the gains y2/y1 and y3/y1.

2. In the following block diagram, R(s) and D(s) are two inputs. The output Y(s) is
expressed as Y(s) = G1(s)R(s) + G2(s)D(s).
G1(s) and G2(s) are given by

3. Reduce the signal flow graph shown in fig. below, to obtain another graph which does
not contain the node e5. Also, remove any self-loop from the resulting graph.
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4. A feedback control system is shown in figure

(a) Draw the signal-flow graph that represents the system.

(b) Find the total number of loops in the graph and determine the loop-gains of all the
loops.
(c) Find the number of all possible combination of non-touching loops taken two at a
time.
(d) Determine the transfer function of the system using the signal-flow graph.

5. The signal flow graph for a system is given below. The transfer function Y(s)U(s) for this
system is
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6. Consider the signal flow graph shown in Figure. The gain x5/x1 is

7. The signal flow graph of a system is shown in figure. The transfer function C(s)R(s) of

the system is
Frequency Response Analysis

1. Nyquist plot consider a feedback system where the OLTF

is: G(s)=1/s(2s+1)(s+1). Determine the asymptote which the nyquist plot approaches
as ω→0. Find also the range of 'k' in terms of the cross over frequency ωPC for stability.

2. A unity feedback system has open-loop transfer function G(s)=1/s(2s+1)(s+1). Sketch

Nyquist plot for the system and there from obtain the gain margin and the phase margin

3. The magnitude plot of the open loop transfer function G(s), of a certain system is given
in fig,
(a) Determine G(s), if it is known that the system is of minimum phase type.
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(b) Estimate the phase at each of the corner frequencies.

4. The open loop transfer function of a unity negative feedback system

is G(s)=k/s(1+sT1)(1+sT2), where k, T1 and T2 are positive constants. Find the phase cross-
over frequency, in rad/s.

STABILITY

1. Consider the feedback control system shown in figure.

(a) Find the transfer function of the system and its characteristic equation.
(b) Use the Routh-Hurwitz criterion to determine the range of 'K' for which the system is
stable.

2. The loop transfer function of a feedback control system is given by

G(s)H(s)=K(s+1) / s(1+Ts)(1+2s), K>0 Using Routh-Hurwitz criterion, determine the region of
K-T plane in which the closed-loop system is stable.
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3. The characteristic equation of a feedback control system is s4+20s3+15s2+2s+K=0

(i) Determine the range of K for the system to be stable.
(ii) Can the system be marginally stable? If so, find the required value of K and the frequency
of sustained oscillation.

4. A system having an open loop transfer function G(s)=K(s+3) / s(s2+2s+2) is used in a control
system with unity negative feedback. Using the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, find the range of
values of 'K' for which the feedback system is stable.

Root Locus Diagram

1. The open-loop transfer function of a unity-feedback control system is. The value of K at the
breakaway point of the feedback control system's root-locus plot is _____________

2. The forward-path transfer function and the feedback-path transfer function of a single loop
negative feedback control system are given as G(s)=K(s+2)/s2+2s+2 and H(s) = 1 respectively.
If the variable parameter K is real positive, then the location of the breakaway point on the
root locus diagram of the system is_____________.

State Space Analysis

1. A system is characterized by the following state-space equations:

a) Find the transfer function of the system

b) Compute the state-transition matrix/p>
c) Solve the state equation for a unit-step input under zero initial conditions
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2. The block diagram of a linear time invariant system is given in Figure is

(a) Write down the state variable equations for the system in matrix form assuming the
state vector to be [x1(t)x2(t)]T
(b) Find out the state transition matrix.
(c) Determine y(t), t ≥ 0, when the initial values of the state at time t = 0 are x1(0) = 1,
and x2(0) = 1.
3. A certain linear, time-invariant system has the state and output representation shown
below:

4. Obtain a state space representation in diagonal form for the following system