Assignment 2

Block diagram, system performance and responses

Due date: Value: Total marks: Penalty for late submission: 22 October 2012 10% 100 5% per day

1. Simplify the above system block diagram, and determine its open-loop and closed-loop transfer functions.

(20 marks) (Hint: shift and join summing junction 2 and 3) For the following questions, given 100K G ( s )H ( s ) = ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 ( s + 10 ) ( s + 15 ) ( s + 30 )

2. Determine the range of K that will make this unity feedback system stable using RouthHurwitz criterion. (20 marks) 3. Given K = 90, draw the Bode plots for the above system, and determine its gain margin and phase margin. (40 marks)

4. Obtain the steady-state error for a unit step input. (10 marks) 5. If you are required to improve its transient response, will you choose a PI, a PD, a PID, a phase lead, a phase lag or a phase-lead-lag controller? (10 marks)