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Practice Paper-I Control System

Q. 1 - Q. 5 carry one mark each.

Q.1 Consider a compensator defined as

5 ^1 + 0.9s h
Gc ^s h =
1 + 0.3s
The maximum phase shift of the compensator is
(A) 20c (B) 45c
(C) 30c (D) 60c

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Q.2 Three second order control systems exhibit same resonant frequencies. Which among

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Q.3 Consider the following block diagram of a control system.

The signal flow graph corresponding to the block diagram is

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Q.4The characteristic equation of a linear control system is given by S 2 + 5ks + 10 = 0 .

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Q.5 Figure shows the block diagram of an amplifier system with an overall feedback loop
and additive noise N to amplifier A2 .

To reduce the effect of noise N ,

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(A) A2 gain should be increased

(B) The feedback factor b should be increased
(C) The gain of A1 should be increased
(D) Both A1 and A2 gain should be increased

Q. 6 - Q. 15 carry two marks each.

Q.6 The open loop transfer function of a unity feedback control system is
1/ 3
G ^s h =
s ^s + 1h
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(A) 93c (B) 63c

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Q.7 Consider the unity feedback closed loop system shown in figure below.

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What is the sensitivity of steady state error with respect to changes in parameter k for
the systems to step input ?
(A) - k (B) k
ab + k ab + k
(C) ab (D) - ab
k + ab k + ab

Q.8 Consider a system having characteristics equation

S5 + 3s 4 + 3s3 + 9s2 + 2s + 6 = 0
Which of the following statement is correct for the system ?
(A) The system is unstable with two right half of s-plane poles
(B) Marginally stable with two pairs of imaginary axis poles
(C) Marginally stable with one pair of imaginary axis poles and one pole at origin
(D) Stable with no pole on imaginary axis
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Q.9 Which of the following is the phase plot of G _ s i = 1 ?

1 + ST

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Which of the following is the root locus diagram for the loop gain

G ^s h H ^s h =
k ^s + 2h

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Q.11 The gain margin for the system with G ^s h = 2500 is

s ^s + 5h^s + 50h

(A) 14.80 dB (B) - 14.80 dB

(C) 10 dB (D) 12 dB
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Numerical Answer Questions

Q.12 The unit step response settles at 0.75 after certain time for unity feedback system
with open loop transfer function G ^s h = k . What is the Value of k ?
^s + 1h^s + 2h

Q.13 For the control system shown in figure, what will be the value of a such that the
characteristic equation has real root at s =- 1 and s =- 5

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Statement For Linked Answer Questions 14 and 15:

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Consider a linear system whose state space representation is
0 1 0
6xo^ t h@ = >- 2 - 3H x ^ t h + >1H u ^ t h
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The state transition matrix of the system is
2e-t - e-2t e-2t - e-t
(A) > H
- 2e-2t + 2e-t - e-t + 2e-2t

2e-t - e-2t e-t - e-2t

(B) > H
- 2e-t + 2e-2t - e-t + 2e-2t

- e-t + 2e-2t e-2t - e-t

(C) > H
- 2e-2t + 2e-t 2e-t - e-2t

- e-t + 2e-2t e-t - e-2t

(D) > H
- 2e-t + 2e-2t 2e-t - e-2t
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e-2t
Q.15 If system response is x ^ t h = > H for certain initial vector of x1 ^0h and
- 2e-2t
e-t
x ^ t h = > -tH for x2 ^0 h then x1 ^0 h and x2 ^0 h are, respectively
-e
-1 -1 1 1
(A) > H, > H (B) > H, > H
1 2 -1 2

1 -1 1 1
(C) > H, > H (D) > H, > H
1 -2 -2 -1

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