NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROURKELA

MID - TERM EXAMINATION, 2018

SESSION: 2018– 2019 (Autumn)
B.TECH (Open Elective)

Subject code: ME417 Subject Name: Control System Engineering Dept. Code: ME
No. of pages: 02 Full Marks: 60 Duration: 2 Hours

N.B.: (1) All questions are compulsory (2) Assume suitable data whenever necessary but justify the
same. (3) Figures to the right hand margin indicate full marks (4) All parts of a question should be
answered at one place

Q. Particulars Marks
No.

Consider the system shown in Fig. 1(a). To improve the performance of the system a feedback is
1. added to this system, which results in Fig. 1 (b). Determine the value of K so that the damping ratio
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of the new system is 0.45. Obtain the overshoot, rise time, peak time and settling time of the systems
shown in Fig. 1 (a) and Fig. 1 (b) under unit step input.

Fig. 1. Control systems

Consider the servo system with tachometer feedback shown in Fig.2. Determine the ranges of
2.
stability for K and Kh (note that Kh must be positive).

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Fig. 2. Servo system with tachometer

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3. Convert the block diagram of Fig. 3 to a signal flow graph, and therefrom obtain the overall transfer
function using the Mason’s gain rule. 5+10

Fig. 3. Block diagrams of a control system

Consider the spring-mass-damper system shown in Fig. 4 where f1(t) and f2(t) are the time
4. dependent forces (inputs) and x1 and x2 are the responses. Derive the equations of motion 6+9
of the system from the free body diagram and also find the transfer functions of the system.

Fig. 4. A spring- mass-damper system

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