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Chapter 4 : Routh-Hurwitz Stability
 

 GATE Objective & Numerical Type Solutions

Question 4 [Practice Book] [GATE EE 1992 IIT-Delhi : 1 Mark]
For what range of K the following system (shown in figure) is asymptotically stable?
s -5
+
– s+4

K
Sol. The given figure is shown below.
s -5
+
– s+4

K
Characteristic equation can be written as,
1  G(s) H (s)  0
K ( s  5)
1 0
s4
( K  1) s  5K  4  0
Routh Tabulation :
s1 ( K  1) 0
s0 4  5K
For marginal stability,
K 1  0
4  5K  0
Hence, range of K is 1  K  4 / 5 .
Question 13 [Practice Book] [GATE EE 1997 IIT-Madras : 2 Marks]
The system shown in figure is

1 1 1
R( s) 4 3 C (s)
s +1 s-4 s+3

4 8
(A) Stable (B) Unstable (C) Marginal Stable (D) Critically stable
Ans. (A)
Sol. The signal flow graph for given block diagram is shown below.
-1

1 1 1
s +1 4 s-4 3 s+3 1
R( s) C (s)

-8
-4

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