WorksheetsFEEDBACK AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
To direct, regulate or to command.
control
maintain
feedback
setpoint
What do you call the stimulus that is being fed to a system?
stimuli
response
actuation
input
A description of the behavior of the system using mathematics.
Laplace transform
Complex domain
mathematical model
formulation
A case where the feedback is subtracted from the input signal.
Positive feedback
negative feedback
open loop
closed loop
A part of the control system which manipulates the plant.
controller
manipulator
actuator
plant
A small amount of output is taken so that it can be compared with the input for proper control.
sampling
error measurement
closed-loop
feedback
The difference between the input and the forced response.
steady-state error
forced error
feedback
actuating signal
A portion of the total response which states how the system acquires or dissipated energy.
Steady-State response
Steady-State error
Natural or forced response
Natural or transient response
A device or a system under control.
Actuator
Output response
Plant or process
Feedback
A type of control system where human serves as the controller of a mechanical system.
Manmade with biological
Natural
Open-loop
Closed-loop
The difference between the input and the feedback signal.
Steady-state error
Actuating signal
Feedback signal
Feedback ratio
The initial value of an impulse signal.
Constant
infinite
unity
zero
Which of the following is a first-order system?
RC circuit
RLC circuit
LC circuit
All of these
The time it takes for a first order system to increase the magnitude from zero to 63% of its final value.
Time response
Time constant
Charge time
Settling time
Find the time constant of a system with transfer function 2/(s+10)
10 s
1 s
0.1 s
0.01 s
What is the transfer function VL(s)/Vi(s) of a series RL?
A. s/ (s + R/L)
B. Ls/ (s + R/L)
C. s/ (s + V/R)
D. Rs/ (s + L/R)
Find the rise time of a system with transfer function 2/(s+10)
22 s
0.22 s
2.2 s
22ms
Find the settling time of a system with transfer function 2/(s+10)
40 s
0.4 s
4 s
40 ms
The damping ratio of a critically damped system.
1
>0
Between 1 and 0
Maximum
The percent overshoot is greater than 100%. The type of response is ___
Critically damped 2nd Order
Undamped 2nd Order
Under damped 2nd Order
Overdamped 2nd Order
The poles are complex, with no real component. The response is ___
Critically damped 2nd Order
Undamped 2nd Order
Under damped 2nd Order
Overdamped 2nd Order
Instability is attributed to what part of the total response?
transient or natural response
steady state or forced response
natural or forced response
steady-state and transient response
Physically, what will happen to unstable systems?
The sensitivity will decrease
The sensitivity will increase
There will be a large error
Self-destruction
A block that represents a subsystem contains the ___ of the system.
Transfer function
Characteristic polynomial
Feedback signal
Stability
The directionality of transmissions in a block diagram are always ___
unidirectional
bidirectional
in a loop
negative feedback
A block diagram component that describes the linear mixing of signals.
summer
pick-off points
parallel
feedback
The output signal from a block is the product of the input signal and the ___
C(s)
Transfer function
Feedback transfer function
Actuating signal
The simplified form of cascaded blocks is the ___ of the transfer function of each block.
product
sum
difference
ratio
Positive feedback can cause a pole to be at ___ of the complex plane.
Asymmetry
Axis of imaginaries
LPF
RHP
The summer and pick-off points are converted into a ___ in signal flow graphs.
node
point
transmission
junction
The transmission from the source to the sink of a system.
loop
non touching loops
path
forward path
A continuous unidirectional transmission.
loop
non touching loops
path
forward path
Two blocks, A and B in parallel is simplified as ___
A. A + B
B. AB
C. A/(1+AB)
D. B/(1+AB)
A forward block with transfer function G1 has two feedback blocks in cascade, G2 and H. The simplified transfer function is ___.
G1/(1+H G1 G2)
H G2/(1+H G1 G2)
G2/(1+H G1 G2)
H G1/(1+H G1 G2)
A unity feedback system has a block with transfer function (2/(s+1)). The simplified function is __.
2/(s + 3)
2/(s – 3)
2/(s – 1)
2/(2s – 1)
A negative feedback system has a forward block 1/(s+2) and the feedback block (1/s). The simplified function is __.
A. s/(s2+2s+1)
B. s/(s2+2s–1)
C. s2+2s+11
D. s2+2s−11
A negative feedback system has a forward block (1/s) and the feedback block 1/(s+2). The simplified function is __.
s2+2s+1s+2
s2+2s−1s+2
s/(s2+2s+1)
s/(s2+2s–1)
A system having more than one input and output.
MIMO
SISO
BIBO
MISO
Statement A: Summers and take-off points can swap positions in a block diagram without altering the signal flow. Statement B: Summers in cascade can be combined.
True, True
True, False
False, True
False, False
A system is ___ if all poles have a negative real component.
Unstable
Marginally stable
Stable
Infinite error
