Control Engineering
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Control Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Control Engineering (subject code 2151908) as prescribed for Robotics · Semester 4 divides the course into 8 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 (2151908)Unit 1 Basic concepts of control system
- Terminology - plant
- controlled variable
- manipulated variable etc.
- Block diagram of basic control system
- application areas with examples
- Classifications of control systems
- Concept of superposition for linear systems with examples
Unit 2 Mathematical modelling of systems
- Translational and rotational mechanical
- hydraulic and pneumatic systems
- Force voltage and force current analogy
- Position servo mechanism
- Block diagram and signal flow graph representation of physical systems along with rules
- comparison and limitation
- Mason’s gain formula
Unit 3 Time response analysis
- Standard test signals along with examples of their usage
- steady state errors for step
- ramp and parabolic inputs
- analysis of first and second order systems
- Transient response specifications with numerical examples
- Basic control actions and two position
- proportional, PI, PID and rate feedback controllers
- Limitations of time domain analysis
Unit 4 Frequency response analysis
- Need of frequency response analysis
- Sinusoidal response of linear system
- methods used in frequency response
- Frequency domain specifications
Unit 5 Stability
- Concept of stability
- types of stability
- Routh’s stability criterion
- special cases with numerical examples
- stability of closed loop system
- concept of root locus
- open loop and closed loop transfer poles
- step by step procedure for root loci
- numerical examples
Unit 6 Hydraulic control system
- Basic elements of hydraulic circuit
- Principle used in hydraulic circuit
- Sources of hydraulic power
- PD & PID controller with its transfer function
- Comparison between hydraulic and electrical control system
Unit 7 Pneumatic control system
- Basic elements of pneumatic circuit
- Difference between pneumatic and hydraulic control systems
- Force balance and force distance type controllers
- Nozzle-flapper amplifier, PD, PI and PID control system along with its transfer function
Unit 8 State space analysis
- State space representation
- state variables
- state vector
- state space
- formulation of state space equations for mechanical and electrical systems
- advantages over classical technique
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