RAJALAKSHMI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

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QUESTION BANK

SUBJECT : CONTROL SYSTEMS SUB – CODE: EE 2253

UNIT – 1

Part A

1. What is Control System?

2. What is linear time invariant system?
3. Give the main classification of control systems?
4. What is open loop system? Give example.
5. What is closed loop system? Give example.
6. What do you mean by feedback in control systems?
7. What are the two types of feedback?
8. Give the advantages of negative feedback.
9. Give the advantages of closed loop system.
10. Defne transfer function.
11. What are the advantages of transfer function modeling of systems?
12. List out the components of a feedback control system.
13. What is an error detector?
14. What is a synchro? What are its trade names?
15. Mention the applications of a synchro.
16. What do you mean by a servomechanism?
17. What are the steps to obtain mathematical model of a system?
18. What is thermal resistance?
19. What are analogous systems?
20. Compare open loop and closed loop systems.
21. Write down the force-voltage analogies of mechanical components in Electrical components.
22. Write down the force-current analogies of mechanical components in Electrical components.
23. What are the Electrical analogues of force and rotational damping in torque – voltage analogy?
24. What do you mean by block diagram representation?
25. Give the advantages of block diagram reduction.
26. Write any two rules for block diagram reduction.
27. Write Mason’s gain formula?
28. What are the basic elements used for modeling mechanical translational system.
29. What are the basic elements used for modeling mechanical rotational system?
30. Name two types of electrical analogues for mechanical system.
31. What is a signal flow graph?
32. What is transmittance?
 Part B

1. Determine the transfer function X1(S) / F(S) and X2(S) / F(S) of the mechanical system
shown in figure.

2. Write the governing differential equations of the mechanical system shown in figure.

3. Write the governing differential equations of the mechanical system shown in figure.
4. Obtain the closed loop transfer function C(S) / R(S) of the system whose block
diagram is shown in figure. Use Block diagram reduction technique and verify the
transfer function with signal flow graph technique.

5. Derive the transfer function of

i. Armature controlled d.c. motor
ii. Field control d.c. motor with necessary block diagram

6. Explain the rules for block diagram reduction.

 UNIT – II

Part A

1. What are the Standard test signals used to evaluate the performance of a given system
2. Define Type and Order of a system.
3. What is the difference between Type and Order of a system?
4. What are time domain specifications?
5. What may be the damping ratio when percentage overshoot of the system is 100%?
6. Define rise time.
7. Define Peak time.
8. What is percentage overshoot?
9. Define settling time.
10. What are the effects of PI controller?
11. What is integral time square error of second order system?
12. Define adaptive control system.
13. Enumerate the advantages of generalized error co-efficients?
13. Draw the functional block diagram of PID controller.
15. What are the static error constants?
16. Define position, velocity and acceleration error constants?
17. Draw the error response of a first order system with step input.
18. How will you eliminate off-set in a P controller?
19. Define steady state error f a system.
20. Define damping ratio.
21. Give the steady state error for step and ramp input.
22. Give the relationship between static and dynamic error co- efficients.
23. Write the equation of a PID controller.
24. What is transient response of a system?
25. Define steady state response of a system.
26. What is the need for a controller in control systems?
27. What are the different types of controllers?
28. What is Proportional controller?
29. What is PI controller?
30. What is PD controller?
31. What is the significance of integral controller and derivative controller in a PID controller?
32. Why derivative controller is not used in control systems?
33. What is the drawback of static coefficients?
34. What are the effects of adding a zero to a system?
35. What is a dominant pole?

Part B

1. Measurements are conducted on a servomechanism show the system response to be

C(t) = 1 + 0.2 e- 60t – 1.2 e- 10t when subjected to unit step input.
i. Obtain the expression for the closed loop transfer function.
ii. Determine the undamped natural frequency and damping ratio of the system.

2. The open loop transfer function of a servo system with unity feedback is
 G(s). Evaluate the dynamic error using dynamic error coefficients. Obtain the steady state

UNIT – III
1. What are the specifications in time domain used to specify indirectly time domain
specifications?
2. What are M circles and N circles?
3. Define phase margin.
4. Define gain margin.
5. Define gain cross over frequency.
6. Define phase cross over frequency.
7. What is Nichol’s chart?
8. How is phase margin determined from a bode plot?
9. How is closed loop response obtained from the Nichol’s chart?
10. What are the advantages of Nichols chart?
11. How is the Resonant Peak (Mr), resonant frequency (Wr ) , and band width determined
from Nichols chart?
12. Define Corner frequency?
13. What is Bode plot?
14. What are advantages of Bode plot?
15. What is frequency response?
16. List out the different frequency domain specifications?
17. Define –resonant Peak?
18. Define –Resonant frequency.
19. What is bandwidth?
20. Define Cut-off rate?
21. What is polar plot?
22. How do you find the stability of the system by using polar plot/
23. Define all pass system.
24. What is minimum phase system?
25. How do you find the stability of the system by using gain margin and phase margin?

UNIT – IV
1. State Nyquist stability criterion.
2. Define BIBO stability.
3. Mention the limitations of Routh – Hurwitz criterion.
4. Write the condition for unstable system.
5. What is marginally stable system?
6. Explain how stability is determined from Routh – Hurwitz table?
7. Explain relative stability of the system?
8. State the advantages of Nyquist plot.
9. What are break away points?
10. What are all pass systems?

UNIT – V
1.What do you mean by compensation?
2.What is a compensator?
3.What are the two different compensation techniques?
4.Differentiate between series and feedback compensation.
5.What are the different compensators available?
6.What is a lag compensator?
7.Draw the electrical network of lag compensator.
8.Draw the Bode plot of lag compensator.
9.What are the advantages and disadvantages of lag compensation?
10.What is a lead compensator?
11.Draw the electrical network of lead compensator.
12.Draw the Bode plot of lead compensator.
13.What are the advantages and disadvantages of lead compensation?
14.What is a lag- lead compensator?
15.Draw the electrical network of lag - lead compensator.
16.Draw the Bode plot of lag -lead compensator.
17.What are the advantages and disadvantages of lag- lead compensation?