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The document provides a cover sheet and questions for a mid-semester invigilated test on control systems. It includes instructions for students, permitted materials, and 5 multiple part questions testing concepts such as determining transfer functions, root loci, polar plots, and time domain responses.

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Student ID Surname Given Names: Test Papers Are Not Permitted To Be Removed From The Test Venue

The document provides a cover sheet and questions for a mid-semester invigilated test on control systems. It includes instructions for students, permitted materials, and 5 multiple part questions testing concepts such as determining transfer functions, root loci, polar plots, and time domain responses.

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Súññý Siddardh Roy
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Student ID

Surname
Given Names

Semester/Year: Semester 2, 2017

MID SEMESTER INVIGILATED TEST COVER SHEET

Faculty / School: Engineering, Health, Science and the Environment /


Engineering and Information Technology
Unit: ENG476 - Control Systems
Lecturer: Friso De Boer
Duration: 120 minutes

1. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
1.1 Answer all questions.

1.2 Note that questions ARE NOT of equal value.

1.3 Read ALL questions carefully.

1.4 Do not commence writing until instructed to do so

2. ATTACHED MATERIALS:
None

3. PERMITTED MATERIALS:
Calculators - Programmable
Dictionary - English (Unannotated)
Dictionary - Other Lang Translation (Unannotated)
Unit Text Book: Ogata, K., Modern Control Engineering

4. EXAMINATION BOOKLETS:
1 20-pages Booklet(s)
Answers on Exam Paper: NO

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ENG476 - Control Systems
TEST PAPERS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO BE REMOVED FROM THE TEST VENUE
Question 1 (3 marks)
The unit step response of a first order system G(s) is given in the figure below.

Question 1.1 (1 mark)


Determine the static gain of this system (the magnitude at  = 0 [rad/s]) and the time constant T
of this system.

Question 1.2 (1 mark)


Derive the transfer function G(s) of this system.

Question 1.3 (1 mark)


An input signal x(t)  5  cos100  t  is applied to this system at t = 0. Determine what the
amplitude of the sinusoidal output signal approximately will be after a considerable time (t >> 1
[s]).

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Question 2 (7 marks)
Given is a unit negative feedback control system whose open loop transfer function is:

K  (s  4)
G(s) 
(s 2  8s + 32)

Question 2.1 (1 mark)


Determine the poles and zeros of the open loop transfer function.

Question 2.2 (1 mark)


Determine which part of the real axis is part of the root locus.

Question 2.3 (1 mark)


Determine the angle(s) and crossing point(s) of the asymptotes of the root loci.

Question 2.4 (1 mark)


Determine the break-away and/or break-in points on the real axis (clearly state which points are
break-away and which are break-in points and how you concluded this).

Question 2.5 (1 mark)


Determine the angle of departure of the root locus from the complex poles.

Question 2.6 (1 mark)


Determine the location of the closed loop poles for K = 4, 8 and 16.

Question 2.7 (1 mark)


Make a sketch of the root loci using the information of Question 2.1 up to Question 2.6.

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Question 3 (4 marks)
An open loop system is described by the transfer function

2
G(s) =
(s 2 + 2s + 4)

Question 3.1 (1 mark)


Determine the static gain (magnitude at  = 0 [rad/s]) in [dB], the undamped natural frequency n

and the damping ratio  of the open loop system G(s).

Question 3.2 (1 mark)


Determine the magnitude in [dB] and phase in [deg] of the open loop system G(s) for  = 1, 2, 4
and  .

Question 3.3 (1 mark)


Make a sketch of the polar plot of the open loop system.

Question 3.4 (1 mark)


The open loop system is controlled using unit negative feedback by a controller Gc(s) = K(1+2s),
K>0. Determine whether the closed loop system will be stable. Explain your answer using the
sketch made in Question 3.3.

Question 4 (1 mark)
Given a system with transfer function

c(s) 1
= G(s) = - and an input signal r(t) =0 for t<0 and r(t) = 2e -t for t0.
r(s) s+2

Question 4.1 (1 mark)


Determine the output of the system c(t) in the time domain when the input signal r(t) is applied to
the above system described by G(s).

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ENG476 - Control Systems
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Question 5 (5 marks)
A system with transfer function G(s) has two poles and no zeros. The poles are located at

 2  j  2 3 . The static gain of the system is 6 [dB].

Question 5.1 (1 mark)


Determine the denominator of this system.

Question 5.2 (1 mark)


Determine the transfer function of this system.

Question 5.3 (1 mark)


Determine the undamped natural frequency n and the damping ratio  of this system.

Question 5.4 (1 mark)


Compute the rise time, tr [s], the peak time, tp [s], and the maximum overshoot, Mp [%], of the
response of this system to a unit step input.

Question 5.5 (1 mark)


Sketch the response of this system to a unit step input using the values determined in Question
5.4.

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