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UNIT I
Introduction to Control systems:
- Concept of control system
- Classification of control systems
- Open loop and closed loop control systems
- Differences
- Examples of control systems
- Effects of feedback
- Feedback Characteristics
Transfer Function Representation:
- Block diagram algebra, Determining the Transfer function from Block Diagrams
- Signal flow graphs (SFG)
- Reduction using Mason’s gain formula
- Transfer function of SFG’s.
UNIT II
Time Response Analysis:
- Standard test signals
- Time response of first order systems
- Characteristic Equation of Feedback control systems
- Transient response of second order systems
- Time domain specifications, Steady state response
- Steady state errors and error constants.
PID controllers:
- Effects of proportional derivative
- proportional integral systems on steady state error.
UNIT III
Stability Analysis in S-Domain:
- The concept of stability
- Routh-Hurwitz’s stability criterion
- qualitative stability and conditional stability
- Limitations of Routh-Hurwitz’s stability
Root Locus Technique:
- Concept of root locus
- Construction of root locus
- Effects of adding poles and zeros to G(s) H(s) on the root loci.
UNIT IV
Frequency Response Analysis:
- Introduction
- Frequency domain specifications
- Bode plot diagrams
- Determination of Phase margin and Gain margin
- Stability analysis from Bode plots, Polar plots.
UNIT V
State Space Analysis of Continuous Systems:
- Concepts of state
- state variables and state model
- Derivation of state models from block diagrams
- Diagonalization
- Solving the time invariant state equations
- State Transition Matrix and it’s properties
- Concepts of Controllability and Observability




