Control System Theory
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Control System Theory Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Control System Theory (subject code 3130905) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 3 divides the course into 5 units, covering 36 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3130905)Unit 1 Introduction to control problem
- Industrial Control examples
- Mathematical models of physical systems
- Control hardware and their models
- Transfer function models of linear time-invariant systems
- Feedback Control: Open-Loop and Closed-loop systems
- Benefits of Feedback
- Block diagram algebra
Unit 2 Time Response Analysis
- Standard test signals
- Time response of first and second order systems for standard test inputs
- Application of initial and final value theorem
- Design specifications for second-order systems based on the time- response
- Concept of Stability
- Routh-Hurwitz Criteria
- Relative Stability analysis
- Root-Locus technique
- Construction of Root-loci
Unit 3 Frequency-response analysis
- Relationship between time and frequency response
- Polar plots
- Bode plots
- Nyquist stability criterion
- Relative stability using Nyquist criterion – gain and phase margin
- Closed-loop frequency response
Unit 4 Introduction to Controller Design
- steady-state accuracy
- transient accuracy
- disturbance rejection
- insensitivity and robustness of control systems
- Root-loci method of feedback controller design
- Design specifications in frequency-domain
- Frequency-domain methods of design
- Application of Proportional
- Integral and Derivative Controllers
- Lead and Lag compensation in designs
- Analog and Digital implementation of controllers
Unit 5 State variable Analysis
- Concepts of state variables
- State space model
- Diagonalization of State Subject Code: 3130905 w.e.f