LEBANESE UNIVERSITY SEMESTER 8, SPRING 2021

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING III DATE: Sep 2021, DURATION: 1 h

ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT Closed book exam

Automatic Control III

Final Exam
Problem 1: (70 pts)
A. The state model of a tunnel-diode circuit is given by:
𝑥̇ 1 = 0.5[−ℎ(𝑥1 ) + 𝑥2 ]
𝑥̇ 2 = 0.2[−𝑥1 − 1.5 𝑥2 + 1.2]
Suppose ℎ(. ) is given by:

ℎ(𝑥1 ) = 17.76𝑥1 − 103.79𝑥12 + 229.62𝑥13 − 226.31𝑥14 + 83.72𝑥15

and the equilibrium points are: 𝑄1 = (0.063 , 0.758), 𝑄2 = (0.285 , 0.61), 𝑄3 = (0.884 , 0.21).
Using the linearized model, find the types of the three equilibrium points.

B. The pendulum equation with friction

𝑥̇ 1 = 𝑥2
𝑥̇ 2 = − sin 𝑥1 − 𝑏𝑥2
has equilibrium points at (0, 0) and (𝜋, 0).
Using the linearized model, find whether the equilibrium points are stable or not with 𝑏 = 0 and
𝑏 > 0.

Problem 2: (30 pts)

Consider the system:
𝑥̇ 1 = −𝑥1 + 𝑥3
𝑥̇ 2 = 𝑥3
𝑥̇ 3 = −𝑥2 − 𝑥23 − 𝑥3
Using 𝑉(𝑥) = 𝑏𝑥12 + 3𝑥22 + 2𝑥2 𝑥3 + 2𝑥32 + 𝑥24 , find 𝑏 to show that the origin is globally
asymptotically stable.