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EE2257 CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY VIVA-VOCE QUESTIONS: 1. What are the main parts of a DC servo motor? 2. What are the two types of servo motor? 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a DC servo motor? 4. Give the applications of DC servomotor? 5. What do you mean by servo mechanism? 6. What do you mean by field controlled DC servo motor? 7. Define transfer function? 8. What is servo mechanism? 9. Is this a closed loop or open loop system .Explain? 10. What is back EMF? 11. What are the main parts of an ac servo motor? 12. What are the advantages and disadvantages of an AC servo motor? 13. Give the applications of Ac servomotor? 14. Define stability of Linear Time Invariant System. 15. Give the stability conditions of system using Pole-Zero plot. 16. Define Bode Plot. 17. What is the use of Bode Plot? 18. What the conditions of stability are in Bode plot? 19. Define Stability criteria. 20. Define Limits of stability. 21. Define safe regions in stability criteria. 22. Define Phase margin and Gain margin. 23. Define root locus technique. 24. What are the conditions of stability in root locus criteria? 25. What is the advantage of root locus technique? 26. Which method of stability analysis is more advantageous? 27. How the stability of unstable is improved? 28. What are the methods to improve the stability? 29. What is the use of compensators? 30. What do you mean by Root-Loci? 31. What is complementary Root Loci? 32. What are contours? 33. State the basic properties of Root Locus. 34. How would you find the number of branches of Root Loci? 35. What is Nyquist plot? 36. Define the conditions of stability in polar plot.

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is the use and advantage of polar plot? 38. What is the difference between regulator & servomechanism? 39. What are the basic components of control system? 40. What are the Open loop and closed loop control systems? 41. Give the advantages of closed loop control systems. 42. What is tacho generator? 43. What do you mean by feedback and what are the types of feedback? 44. In this experiment what type of feedback is used? Why? 45. State Nyquist stability criterion. 46. What is phase cross over frequency? 47. Give a practical example for a first order system. 48. Give a practical example for a second order system. 49. Define rise time 50. Define peak time 51. Define settling time 52. Define peak overshoot 53. What is damping ratio? 54. What are dominant poles? 55. What are dominant zeros? 56. What is a system? 57. Compare open loop and closed loop systems. 58. What is steady state error? 59. What are static error constants? 60. What is gain cross over frequency? 61. Define step angle. 62. Give the applications of stepper motor. 63. What are the types of stepper motor? 64. Give the differences between micro processors and micro controllers. 65. What is excitation?