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B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010
Fourth Semester
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
EE 2253 CONTROL SYSTEMS
(Common to Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering and
Instrumentation and Control Engineering)
(Regulation 2008)
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer ALL questions
PART A (10 2 = 20 Marks)
1. What are the three basic elements in electrical and mechanical system?
2. Write down Masons gain formula.
3. What are the difference between steady state and generalized error
coefficients?
4. What do you mean by peak over shoot?
5. Mention any four frequency response specifications.
6. How will you get closed loop frequency response from open loop response?
7. Write down the statement of Nyquist stability criterion.
8. How is the value of gain K determined from root locus plot?
9. What is the need for compensator?
10. Draw the circuit of the lag compensator and write its transfer function.
Question Paper Code : 53138
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PART B (5 16 = 80 Marks)
11. (a) For the system represented by the block diagram shown in Fig. 1,
evaluate the closed-loop transfer function, when the input R is (i) at
station, I, (ii) at station II.

Fig. 1
Or
in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2
12. (a) A feedback system employing output-rate damping is shown in Fig.3
(i) In the absence of derivative feedback (Ko = 0), determine the
damping factor and natural frequency of the system. What is the
steady-state error resulting from unit-ramp input?
(Applied torque)
(Output)
Station I
Station II
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(ii) Determine the derivative feedback constant Ko, which will increase
the damping factor of the system to 0.6. What is the steady-state
error resulting from unit-ramp input with this setting of the
derivative feedback constant?

Fig. 3
Or
(b) The open-loop transfer function of a servo system with unity feedback is
) 1 1 . 0 (
10
) (
+
=
s s
s G . Obtain the steady state error when subjected to an
input given by the polynomial
2
2 1 0
) ( t a t a a t r + + = . Also find the three
error constants for this system.
transfer function using Bode plot

) 1 01 . 0 )( 1 1 . 0 (
10
) ( ) (
+ +
=
s s s
s H s G .
Or
(b) By use of the Nyquist criterion, determine whether the closed-loop
systems having the following open-loop transfer function is stable or not.
If not, how many closed-loop poles lie in the right half s-plane?

) 1 2 ( ) 1 (
1
) ( ) (
+ +
=
s s s
s H s G .
14. (a) Consider the open-loop transfer function of a unity feedback control
system:

) 6 ( ) 4 (
) 2 (
) (
+ +
+
=
s s s
s K
s G .
Using Routh criterion, find the range of values of k that correspond to a
stable system. Note that K is a positive real constant.
Or
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(b) A unity feedback control system has an open-loop transfer function

) 13 4 (
) (
2
+ +
=
s s s
K
s G .
Sketch the root locus plot of the system.
15. (a) A unity feedback system has an open-loop transfer function of
2
1
) (
s
s G = .
Design a suitable compensator such that a phase margin of 45 is
achieved without sacrificing system velocity error constant.
Or
(b) Consider the system as shown in Fig.4, Design a lead compensator for the
system to meet the following specifications :
Damping ratio = 0.7
Settling time
s
t = 1.4 sec
Velocity error constant
1
sec 2

=
v
K .

Fig. 4