Control System
SECTION-A
Control System Modelling: Basic elements of control system – Open loop and closed loop systems,
Differential equation–Transfer function models, Modeling of electric systems, Translational and
rotational mechanical systems, Block diagram reduction techniques, Signal flow graphs, Feedback
control systems- Stability, steady-state accuracy, transient accuracy, disturbance, rejection,
insensitivity and robustness. Benefits of Feedback.
SECTION-B
Time Response Analysis: Standard test signals, Time response of first order systems to various
standard inputs, Impulse and step response analysis of second order systems, Design specifications
for second-order systems based on the time-response. Application of initial and final value theorem.
Steady state and dynamic errors and error constants. Techniques for stability analysis in time
domain: Stability, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, Relative stability, Root Locus technique, Construction of
Root Locus, Stability, Dominant poles, Application of Root Locus diagram, Relative stability.
SECTION-C
Frequency Response Analysis: Relationship between Time and Frequency Response, Bode plot,
Stability in frequency domain, Minimum and non-minimum phase systems, All-pass systems, Polar
plot, Nyquist plot, Nyquist stability criteria. Performance specification in frequency domain.
Compensation and their realization in time and frequency domain, Lead, Lag and Lead Lag
Compensator.
SECTION-D
Basic Modes of Feedback Control: Proportional, Integral and Derivative PID Controllers. Hardware:
Control hardware and their [Link] Variable Analysis: Concepts of state variables. State space
model. Diagonalization of State Matrix. Solution of state equations. Eigenvalues and Stability
Analysis. Concept of controllability and observability. Pole-placement by state feedback. Discrete-
time systems: Difference Equations. State-space models of linear discrete- time systems. Stability of
linear discrete-time systems.