Control System
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Control System Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Control System (subject code 2141708) as prescribed for IC · Semester 4 divides the course into 7 units, covering 50 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 (2141708)Unit 1 BASIC CONCEPTS OF SYSTEMS AND CONTROL LOOPS
- -Types of systems
- Linear Time Variant
- Linear Time invariant
- Lumped and Distributed parameter systems
- Linear vs non-linear systems
- Systems with delay
- Open loop control system with examples
- Close loop control system With examples and it’s merits over open loop system Effect of both on stability
- gain And Speed response of system
Unit 2 Laplace Transformation and Inverse Laplace
- Transformation: A Brief Overview.
- understanding transfer functions
Unit 3 MATHEMATICAL MEDELING
- Mathematical Modeling of some real world systems: DC Servo Motors
- Liquid Level Systems
- Thermal Systems
- Introduction to modeling using State Space
- Block Diagrams and Signal Flow Graph Analysis
- Block diagram reduction techniques
- Modeling of gear system
- Mechanical-Electrical Analogy
- linearization techniques
Unit 4 TRANSIENT AND STEADY STATE RESPONSE
- Introduction: Type and Order of The Systems
- Transient Response Analysis
- First and second order systems
- Unity Feedback Systems
- Stability Criteria
- BIBO Stability
- relative and absolute stability
- Routh-Hurwitz Criteria for Stability
- Steady State Errors
- Impulse and Step
- Responses of first and second order systems
- Analysis of Transient Response Specifications: peak overshoot
- settling time
- rise time
- peak time etc.
- mathematical analysis and problems
Unit 5 ROOT LOCUS TECHNIQUES
- Plot Locies of root from transfer function
- Stability criteria and system response study from root locus
Unit 6 FREQUENCY RESPONSE TECHNIQUES
- Nyquist criteria
- Nyquist plots
- Bode plots and effect of gain margin
- phase margin on system parameters
- Polar plot and stability criteria
- Nichol chart and it’s application.
- constant M, N circles
- understanding systems with delay and their analysis in frequency domain
Unit 7 Introduction to state space analysis
- Modeling in state space
- transfer function to state space and vice versa
- Eigen values
- state transition matrix.