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1. Group – A (Short Answer Questions)

Unit 1
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Sl. Question Blooms Taxonomy Course Outcomes

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1 Understand 1
What are the components of a control System
2 Understand 1
What are the advantages of Open and Closed
loop Control System?
3 Remember 2
What are the differences between open and

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closed loop control system?

4 Understand 1
What are the effects of feedback on stability of
control system?
5 Understand 1
What are the advantages & disadvantages of
positive feedback control systems?
6 Understand 1
What is difference between System & Control

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System?
7 Remember 1
State two examples of control system?
8 Understand 1

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What are the advantages & limitations of Laplace
Transforms?
9 Remember 1
State the advantages and drawbacks of open loop
control system?
10 What are the differences between Discrete time and Understand 2
continuous time systems?
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Sl. Questions Blooms Taxonomy Course Outcome
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1 What do you understand by Robustness? Understand 1
2 Define steady state error. Understand 2
3 What do you understand by feedback gain? Understand 1
4 Remember 2
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State the advantages and drawbacks of open loop

control system?
5 What do you understand by Loop gain? Understand 1
6 Define Transfer function. Remember 2
7 Remember 1
Define open loop and closed loop control system
with example?
8 Remember 2
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What are the effects of feedback on stability of

control system?
9 Understand 1
Write the application of AC Servomotor?
10 Remember 1
What are the differences between open and closed
loop control system?
Unit 3
Sl. Questions Blooms Taxonomy Course Outcomes
No

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1 Remember 1
State Masons Gain Formula.
2 Understand 2
What is the significance of controller?
3 Understand 2
What is compensation?
4 Understand 1
What is lag compensation?

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5 Understand 1
What is lead compensation?
6 Analyze 2
What are the advantages and disadvantages of
Block diagram Reduction technique
7 Analyze 3

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Compare block diagram representation with signal
flow graph representation
8 What is PI and PD controller? Understand 3
9 Why derivative controller alone is not used in the Analyze 3
control system?
10 What is compensation? What are the different types of Understand 4
compensator?
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Sl. Questions Blooms Taxonomy Course Outcome
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1 Define Body axes system. Understand 6
2 Write in brief about the control effects on rolling Understand 6
moment.
3 Define Flight control system. Understand 6
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4 What do you mean by Reversible flight control system? Understand 6

5 Define stability axes system. Understand 6
6 What do you mean by steady level flight? Remember 6
7 Define Static stability. Understand 6
8 What do you understand by Irreversible Flight control Remember 6
system?
9 Define body axes system. Understand 6
10 Write in brief about the control effects on Pitching Analyze 6
moment.
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Unit 5
Sl. Questions Blooms Taxonomy Course Outcome
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1 Define Autopilot. Understand 7
2 State the advantages of Autopilot system. Remember 6
3 What are the limitations of Autopilot system? Understand 6
4 What do you understand about ac Servomotor? Understand
5 What was the purpose of ‘Displacement type’ autopilot? Understand 7
6 What are the purposes of Autopilot system? Understand 6
7 What do you understand about dc Servomotor? Understand 7

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8 What do you understand about dc Servomotor? Remember 7

9 What do you understand about microcontroller? Understand 6
10 State the control surfaces deployed for the Lateral – Remember 6
directional control.
Unit 6
Sl. Questions Blooms Taxonomy Course Outcomes
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1 What are the advantages of using state variable? Understand 1
2 What are the different methods of decomposition of Remember 1

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transfer function?
3 How is a state diagram constructed? What is its Understand 1
significance?
4 Write any two properties of state transition matrix Remember 1
5 Write the state space equations of a system. Understand 1
6 Define state variable. Analyze 1

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7 Define State model. Understand 1
8 What is the advantage of canonical form? Remember 1
9 What do you understand by the concept ‘state’? Understand 1
10 What is the significance of State transition matrix? Remember 1
Unit 7
Sl. Questions Analyze Course Outcomes
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1 What are the advantages of state space analysis? Understand 1
2 What do you understand by ‘canonical description’ of a Remember 1
system?
3 What do you mean by homogeneous state equation? Understand 1
4 Define Eigen values/ Remember 1
5 Define Eigen Vectors? Understand 1
6 Define controllability? Analyze 1
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7 What do you mean by nonhomogeneous state equation? Understand 1

8 What do you mean by characteristic equation? Remember 1
9 Define observability? Understand 1
10 What do you understand by MIMO? Remember 1
Unit 8
Sl. Questions1 Blooms Taxonomy Course Outcomes
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1 Write in brief about modern control techniques. Remember 12
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2 Write in brief about the cost constraints for an optimal Remember 12

controller.
3 What do you understand by Linear Quadratic Understand 12
Regulator?
4 Define feedback matrix. Remember 12
5 What do you understand by stability Augmentation? Understand 12
6 What do you understand by Optimal control? Remember 12
7 What do you understand by Digital Control? Remember 12
8 Name the three basic methods of decomposition for Understand 12
digital controller?

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9 Define microprocessor? Remember 12

10 What do you understand by Digital Signal Processing? Understand 12

Group B (2 Marks questions)

Unit 1
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Explain the concept of ‘System’? Understand 1

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2 Understand 1
What are the advantages & disadvantages of positive and
negative feedback control
3 Draw the block diagram representation of a general Open loop Analyze 2
system.

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4 Draw the block diagram representation of a general Closed loop Analyze 1
system.
5 Define Transfer function. Understand 1
6 What are the limitations of modelling a system using Transfer Understand 1
function?
7 Define Settling time, Peak time, and Maximum overshoot. Remember 1
8 What do you understand from critically damped system? Understand 1
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What do you understand by ‘Frequency Response’?
Write the general expression for a second order system.
Remember
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Unit 2
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Explain the concept of Feedback control with the help of an Understand 1
example from any biological/societal system.
2 Explain the concept of Open loop system with the help of a block Understand 2
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diagram.
3 Explain the concept of Closed loop system with the help of a block Understand 1
diagram.
4 Define ‘Stability’ of a control system. Remember 2
5 What do you understand by the concept of ‘Robustness’? Understand 1
6 Write in brief about Automatic Control. Remember 2
7 Write a short note on ‘Effect of Feedback on Overall gain’ of a Remember 1
control system.
8 Write a short note on ‘Effect of Feedback on Stability’ of a control Remember 2
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system.
9 Write in brief about Servomotors. Understand 1
10 Write in brief about Servomotors. Remember 1
Unit 3
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 What is PD controller? Remember 1
2 What does it mean a control system is being mentioned as Robust? Understand 2
3 Give the effects of PD control on the rise time and settling time of Understand 2
a control system.

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4 How does the PD controller affect the bandwidth of a control Understand 1

system?
5 Give the limitations of Phase-Lead controller. Understand 1
6 How does the phase-lead controller affect the bandwidth of a Analyze 2
control system?
7 Give the general effects of phase-lead controller on rise and Analyze 3
settling time.
8 How does sensitivity function relate to the bandwidth of a system? Understand 3
9 How does the phase-lag controller affect the bandwidth? Analyze 3

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10 Give the effects of phase-lag controller on the rise time and Understand 4
settling time of a control system.
Unit 4
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Write in brief about Control and Stability of an aircraft. Understand 6
2 Define Avionics. Understand 6

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3 What are the main functions of Inertial sensors? Understand 6
4 What are the differences between reversible and irreversible Flight Understand 6
control system?
5 Write in brief about Pilot’s opinion rating. Understand 6
6 Write in brief about control task of pilot. Remember 6
7 Give the definition of the system type of linear time-invariant Understand 6

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system.
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Describe any two time response specifications. Remember 6
9 Describe any two frequency response specifications Understand 6
10 Write in brief about Full authority fly by wire system. Analyze 6
Unit 5
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Describe the functional block diagram of a roll control autopilot Understand 7
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system.
2 Describe the functional block diagram of a pitch displacement Remember 6
autopilot system.
3 Define Pitch –Attitude hold. Understand 6
4 State the generic aircraft transfer function for position feedback Understand
(control surface deflection).
5 State the generic aircraft transfer function for Rate Feedback (pitch Understand 7
rate).
6 Understand 6
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7 What do you understand by ‘Command track’? Understand 7

8 Describe the functional block diagram for an ‘Adaptive Remember 7
Controller’.
9 What do you understand about Mach Hold/Attitude hold? Understand 6
10 Describe the functional block diagram for a ‘Learning System’. Remember 6
Unit 6
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 What are the limitations of classical control theory? Understand 1
2 Give two reasons for modelling system in state space. Remember 1

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3 What is required to represent a system in state space? Understand 1

4 An eighth-order system would be represented in sate space with Remember 1
how many state equations?
5 What is meant by linear independence? Understand 1
6 What factors influence the choice of state variables in any system? Analyze 1
7 What is a convenient choice of state variables in electrical Understand 1
network?
8 What is meant by phase-variable form of state-equation? Remember 1
9 Draw the control configuration block diagram for a SISO system. Understand 1

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10 Draw the control configuration block diagram for a MIMO Remember 1
system.
Unit 7
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for the Understand 1
system shown here.

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system shown here.

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Find the state space representation in phase variable form for the Remember 1
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3 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for the Understand 1
system shown here.
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4 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for the Remember 1
system shown here.
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5 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for the Understand 1
system shown here.

6 List the steps followed in converting state space representation of Analyze 1

a system t canonical form.
7 Describe vector matrix representation of a system. Understand 1

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8 What are the benefits of state space representation over Transfer Remember 1
function representation for a second order closed loop system?
9 List out the steps involved in converting a physical system, Understand 1
electrical or mechanical, into state space representation.
10 Define system matrix. Remember 1
Unit 8
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 What do you understand by the concept ‘Stability augmentation’? Remember 12

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2 Write a short note on the digital implementation of analog Remember 12
controllers?
3 State the concept of Digital control. Understand 12
4 Draw the block diagram representation of a generic digital Remember 12
controller.
5 Draw the block diagram representation of a generic cascade digital Understand 12
controller.

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6 What do you understand by the concept ‘Sampling’? Remember 12
7 Write short notes on digital integration rules. Remember 12
8 Explain how modern design techniques helps in designing SAS Understand 12
(Stability Augmentation System) as well as autopilots.
9 Define Optimal feedback gain. Remember 12
10 What are the characteristics of a Robust system? Understand 12
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Group C (10 Marks questions)

Unit 1
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Functionally, how do closed-loop systems differ from open- Understand 1
loop system? Also give three examples of open loop systems.
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2 Name and explain the two parts of a system response? Understand 1

3 Name and explain the three major design criteria for a control Remember 2
system.
4 Name and briefly explain the three approaches to the Understand 1
mathematical modeling of control systems.
5 Derive the Laplace transform of the following functions. Understand 1
a) u(t)
b) sin wt u(t)
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c) tu(t)s
6 Using the Laplace transform pairs and the Laplace transform Analyze 2
theorems, derive the Laplace transforms for the following
time functions:

7 A system is described as the following differential equation Analyze 4

find the Transfer function of the same..

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8 Name and describe the two ways in which we can plot the Understand 1
frequency response of a system.
9 Define. Remember 1
a) Bode Plot
b) Nyquist plot
c) Phasor
10 Define. Understand 2

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a) Damped frequency
b) Settling time
c) Damping ratio
d) Rise time
e) Asymptote
Unit 2

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Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Name and explain the four components of a block diagram for a Understand 1
linear, time-invariant
system.
2 Name three basic forms for interconnecting subsystems and explain Understand 1
how the equivalent transfer function is found.
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For a simple, second-order feedback control system of the type
shown in the following, describe the effect that variations of
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forward-path gain, K, have on the transient response.

4 Reduce the block diagram shown in the figure to a Analyze 4

single transfer function, G(s) = C(s)/R(s).
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5 What does the Routh-Hurwitz criterion tell us? Understand 1

6 Explain about the different types of transduces used in an Understand 1
aircraft with neat sketches.
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7 Describe how many roots of the following polynomial are Remember 1

in the right half-plane, in the left half-plane, and on
the jw axis: and justify your answer.

8 How many roots of the following polynomial are Understand 1

in the right half-plane, in the left half-plane, and on
the jw-axis:

9 How many poles are in the right half-plane, in the Remember 1

left half-plane, and on the jv-axis for the open-loops system provided
below.

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10 Using the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, tell how many closed-loop poles Understand 2
of the system shown in the following figure lie in the left half-plane,
in the right half-plane, and on the jw-axis.

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Unit 3
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Define the common test signals employed in evaluating a Remember 3
system with the help of the graphical as well as mathematical
representation.

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2 Explain the exact relationship between the static error constants and Understand 2
the steady state errors for ramp and parabolic inputs?
3 Define system type. The forward transfer function of a control Understand 2
system has three poles at _1;_2; and _3. What is the system type?
4 Define, in words, sensitivity and explain the goal of feedback- Understand 1
control-system engineering as it applies to sensitivity.
5 How are nonunity feedback systems analyzed and designed for Understand 1
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steady-state errors? Is the forward-path actuating signal the system
error if the system has nonunity feedback? Justify your answers.
6 For the unity feedback system shown in the block diagram Analyze 3

having the transfer function:

Find the steady state errors for the following test inputs:
25u(t), 37tu(t).
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Block diagram:

7 For the unity feedback system shown in the block diagram Analyze 4

having the transfer function:

Find the steady state errors for the following test inputs:
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15u(t), 37t2u(t).

Block diagram:

8 Describe the kind of compensation which improves: Understand 3

a) Steady state error.
b) Transient response.
9 Cascade compensation to improve the steady-state error is based Analyze 3
upon what pole-zero placement of the compensator? Also, explain
the reasons for this placement.

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10 What difference on the s-plane is noted between using a PD Understand 4

controller or using a lead network to improve the transient response?
Also explain What kind of compensation improves both steady-state
error and transient response?
Unit 4
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Explain in detail about the Control Augmentation System Understand 6
(CAS) of an aircraft with a neat block diagram of the same.
2 Explain in detail about the Simplified Control Augmentation Understand 6

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System (CAS) of an aircraft with a neat block diagram of the
same.
3 Write in detail about the benefits in terms of flying qualities of Understand 6
an aircraft on the implementation of CAS.
4 Draw and explain the Simplified block diagram of the Understand 6
longitudinal Fly By Wire system deployed in F-16

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5 Explain the usage and importance of typical Inner-Loop Understand 6
Stability and Control.
6 Explain in detail about the Outer-loop Autopilot/navigation Remember 6
Control.
7 Write in brief about: Understand 6
a) Bank angel hold
b) Altitude hold
8 Write in brief about:
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a) Heading hold
b) Pitch Attitude Hold
9 Write in brief about: Understand 6
a) Lead Compensator
b) Lag Compensator
10 Explain the concept of Lead-Lag compensator with the help of Analyze 6
a neat block diagram.
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Unit 5
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 What are the advantages of Digital control? Understand 7
2 What are the disadvantages of digital control? Remember 6
3 Write in detail about ‘Digital Control’ with the help of a neat Understand 6
block sketch.
4 Write in detail about Analog to Digital Conversion. Understand
5 Write in detail about Digital to Analog Conversion. Understand 7
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6 Write in detail about Reversible Flight Control System Understand 6

7 Write in detail about Irreversible Flight Control system. Understand 7
8 Write in brief about: Remember 7
c) Heading hold
d) Pitch Attitude Hold
9 Write in brief about: Understand 6
c) Lead Compensator
d) Lag Compensator
10 Explain the concept of Lead-Lag compensator with the help of Remember 6
a neat block diagram.

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Unit 6
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
1 Define: Blooms Course
a) State Taxonomy Outcomes
b) State variable
c) State vector
d) State space
2 What is to require to represent a system in state space and also Understand 1
explain why state space modelling is being proffered than any

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other kind?
3 Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the system Remember 1
represented in state space.

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4 Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the system Understand 1
represented in state space.
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5 Find the state space representation of the system expressed as: Remember 1
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Give your answer in vector matrix form.

6 Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the following Understand 1
systems represented in state space:
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7 Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the following Analyze 1
systems represented in state space:

8 Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the following Understand 1
systems represented in state space:

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9 What do you understand by: Remember 1

a) Phase-variable
b) Linear independence
10 For computer aided modeling and analysis of a system state Understand 1

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space representation is preferred more than other forms.
Explain your opinion about this statement.

Unit 7
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes

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1 Find the state space representation of the system expressed as: Understand 1

Give your answer in vector matrix form.

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Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the following
systems represented in state space:
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3 Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the following Understand 1
systems represented in state space:

4 Find the transfer function G(s) = Y(s)/R(s) for the following Remember 1
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systems represented in state space:

5 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for Understand 1
the system shown here.

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6 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for Analyze 1
the system shown here.

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7 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for Understand 1
the system shown here.

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8 Explain the steps followed in converting state space Remember 1
representation of a system to canonical form in detail.
9 Draw the control configuration block diagram for a MIMO Understand 1
system.
10 Find the state space representation in phase variable form and Remember 1
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matrix form for the system shown here.

Unit 8
Sl. Questions Blooms Course
No Taxonomy Outcomes
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1 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for Remember 12
the system shown here.

2 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for Remember 12
the system shown here.
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3 Find the state space representation in phase variable form for Understand 12
the system shown here.

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4 List the steps followed in converting state space representation Remember 12

of a system t canonical form.
5 Describe vector matrix representation of a system. Understand 12
6 Using the Laplace transform pairs and the Laplace transform Remember 12
theorems, derive the Laplace transforms for the following

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time functions:

7 A system is described as the following differential equation Remember 12

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find the Transfer function of the same..

8 Name and describe the two ways in which we can plot the Understand 12
frequency response of a system.
9 Define. Remember 12
d) Bode Plot
e) Nyquist plot
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f) Phasor
10 Define. Understand 12
a) Digital control system
b) Microprocessor
c) Microcontroller
d) Digital signal processing
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