Name: Muhammad Usama Roll No: 20013122-032

Experiment No. 8
Title:
Behavior of under damped, critically damped and over damped controlsystems.

Objectives:
i. Differentiate between under damped, critically damped and over damped systems.
ii. Relate the overshoot and damped frequency to damping factor and natural
frequency.

Apparatus Required:
✓ MS-15 DC Motor Module
✓ AS-3 Command Potentiometer
✓ CLIO Interface Module with PC connection leads
✓ System Power supply
✓ 4mm Connection Leads
✓ PC running VCL (Visual Control Laboratory) Software

Procedure:

• I started VCL software and loaded setup | CA06PE07

• I set the gain Kc to 1.5. and Kv to 0.
• Using the markers, I measured the steady state output change and the peak output
changeand measured the time to first peak.
• After that, I calculated the damped frequency ωd and then the natural
frequency ωnUsing the formula below:

Gain Kc Overshoot ζ Tp Seconds ωd rad/sec ωn rad/sec

1.5 0.379 0.295 0.380 8.37 8.76

Spring 2023 Lab Engineer: Muhammad Waqas Jabbar

Name: Muhammad Usama Roll No: 20013122-032

Now find values for damping factor and natural frequency with Kc = 1.5

Gain Kc Kp Ki ωc rad/sec ζ ωn rad/sec

1.5 0.92 10 4.59 0.2883 7.96

Conclusion & Discussion:

From the above experiment, I concluded how to differentiate the behavior of second order
servo systems on the basis of Damping Factor ζ, and Natural Frequency ωn. As the Damping
factor of the servo control system is less than one, so the system is overdamped.

Spring 2023 Lab Engineer: Muhammad Waqas Jabbar