SURIGAO DEL SUR STATE UNIVERSITY

Cantilan Campus
Cantilan, Surigao del Sur

CONTROL SYSTEMS
Final Examination
ESSAY
1. Name the three applications for feedback control systems.
2. Name three reasons for using feedback control systems and at least one reason for not using them.
3. Name three major design criteria for control systems.
4. Functionally, how do closed-loop systems differ from open-loop systems?
5. Physically, what happens to a system that is unstable?
6. What mathematical model permits easy interconnection of physical systems?
7. To what classification of systems can the transfer function be best applied?
8. Define transfer function.
9. What do we call the mechanical equations written in order to evaluate the transfer function?
10. Why do transfer functions for mechanical networks look identical to transfer functions for electrical
networks?
11. State an advantage of the transfer function approach over the state-space approach.
12. Define state, state variables, state vector and state space.
13. What is meant by linear independence?
14. What factors influence the choice of state variables in any systems?
15. What is required to represent a system in state space?
16. In a system with an input and an output, what poles generate the steady-state response?
17. In a system with an input and an output, what poles generate the transient response?
18. What is the difference between the natural frequency and the damped frequency of oscillation?
19. The imaginary part of a pole generates what part of a response?
20. The real part of a pole generates what part of a response?
21. Name three basic forms for interconnecting subsystems.
22. Name the two components of a signal-flow graph.
23. What is the definition of eigenvector?
24. Based upon your definition of eigenvector, what is eigenvalue?
25. What is the significance of using eigenvectors as basis vectors for a system transformation?
26. What part of the output response is responsible for determining the stability of a linear system?
27. What would happen to a physical system that becomes unstable?
28. What does the Routh-Hurwitz criterion tell us?
29. Why do we sometimes multiply a row of a Routh table by a positive constant?
30. Why do we not multiply a row of a Routh table by a negative constant?

Prepared by:

ENGR. CHERYL O. TAYO, MIT, MSCpE

Instructor II