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Design & Analysis of Control Systems MCQ

The event that causes a use case to begin is called a(n) _____.

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Correct Answer: Trigger

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An object has certain ____, like the make, model, and color of a car.

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Correct Answer: Indices

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In a data dictionary, any name other than the standard data element name is called a(n) ____.

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Correct Answer: Alias

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____ measures a modules scope and processing characteristics.

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Correct Answer: Cohesion

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Setting queue priorities is a type of _____ decision at the operational management level.

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Correct Answer: Unstructured

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An attribute whose value uniquely identifies an object is called a(n) _______.

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Correct Answer: Key attribute

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_____ is a computer crime that involves destroying or disrupting computer services.

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Correct Answer: Sabotage

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_______ requirements are most often documented in graphical and textual models.

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Correct Answer: Functional

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The first step in the creation of a pert/cpm chart is to ____.

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Correct Answer: Identify all the project tasks

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What is the LFMT?

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Correct Answer: Laplace transform of the state-space equations of a system

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What is the ratio of the system output to its input in the S-domain?

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Correct Answer: Transfer Function

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What is the Transfer Function?

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Correct Answer: The ratio of the system output to its input, in the S-domain.

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A system is time variant if an input _____ by an arbitrary delay produces an output shifted by that same delay.

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Correct Answer: Time-shifted

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What is the primary purpose of settling time?

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Correct Answer: To ensure that the system's oscillatory response is damped to within a certain band of the steady-state value

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What is the domain of the Laplace Transform of a signal or system?

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Correct Answer: S-Domain

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What does S-Domain represent?

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Correct Answer: The domain of the Laplace Transform of a signal or system.

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What does SCADA stand for?

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Correct Answer: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition.

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What is the full form of SCADA?

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Correct Answer: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

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What is the sampling time?

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Correct Answer: The amount of time between samples

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What is the name for a system that converts an analog signal into a digital signal?

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Correct Answer: Sampler

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What is a Sampler?

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Correct Answer: A system that converts an analog signal into a digital signal.

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What does it mean if a system is relaxed?

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Correct Answer: The initial conditions are zero.

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What is the target input value of a feedback system called?

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Correct Answer: Reference Value

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What is the reference value in a feedback system?

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Correct Answer: The target input value

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What does a Reconstructor do?

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Correct Answer: Converts a digital signal into an analog signal

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What is a ramp defined by?

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Correct Answer: The function {\displaystyle tu(t)}{\displaystyle tu(t)}

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What is the full form of R/L?

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Correct Answer: Raise-Lower

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What is the correct name for the type of output that works from the present position?

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Correct Answer: Raise-Lower Output

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Quarter-decay is defined as the time or number of control rates required for which process overshoot?

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Correct Answer: To be limited to within 1/4 of the maximum peak overshoot

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What does it mean if a system is quantized?

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Correct Answer: It can only output certain discrete values.

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A system is quantized if it can only output _____.

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Correct Answer: Certain discrete values

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What is a plant?

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Correct Answer: A central system which has been provided, and must be analyzed or controlled.

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What does the PID in PID controller stand for?

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Correct Answer: Proportional-Integral-Derivative

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What drives system stability in the final value of the phase?

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Correct Answer: The poles and zeros of the characteristic equation.

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What is Percent Overshoot?

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Correct Answer: The amount by which the step response overshoots the reference value, in percentage of the reference value.

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What is Partial Fraction Expansion?

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Correct Answer: A method by which a complex fraction is decomposed into a sum of simple fractions

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What is optimal control?

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Correct Answer: A branch of control engineering that deals with the minimization of system cost, or maximization of system performance.

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What is an open loop system?

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Correct Answer: A system that is not closed

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What is the free-running component of an open loop system?

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Correct Answer: Uncontrolled

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What did Oliver Heaviside introduce?

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Correct Answer: Laplace Transform

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When was the Laplace Transform introduced?

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Correct Answer: 1811

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What is the definition of "offset"?

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Correct Answer: The discrepancy between desired and actual value after settling.

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What is OCTAVE?

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Correct Answer: Open-source software having a Control Systems toolbox

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What is the definition of nonlinear control?

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Correct Answer: A branch of control engineering that deals exclusively with non-linear systems.

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The Nyquist Criteria can be derived from what?

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Correct Answer: Bode plots

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What is the Nyquist Criteria?

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Correct Answer: A necessary and sufficient condition of stability that can be derived from Bode plots.

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What is the output signal if the input signal is larger than the feedback signal in a negative feedback system?

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Correct Answer: The output signal will be smaller than the input signal

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What is the natural frequency of a system?

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Correct Answer: The fundamental frequency of the system

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What does MFAC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Model Free Adaptive Control

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What is required for a system to have memory?

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Correct Answer: Its current output is dependent on previous and current inputs.

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What is the full form of MATLAB?

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Correct Answer: Matrix Laboratory

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What isMATLAB?

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Correct Answer: A commercial software having a Control Systems toolbox

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What does it mean when a system has imaginary poles?

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Correct Answer: The system has an oscillatory response.

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What is the DC gain at 0 frequency?

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Correct Answer: Magnitude

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What is Magnitude?

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Correct Answer: DC gain at 0 frequency

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What is the superposition principle?

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Correct Answer: A system that satisfies the superposition principle.

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What are the rows of the inverse transition matrix?

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Correct Answer: Left-hand nullspace solutions to the characteristic equation of a matrix for given eigenvalues.

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What is graphed along the vertical axis in the Laplace Transform domain?

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Correct Answer: Imaginary part of s

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What is plotted along the vertical axis in the Laplace Transform Domain?

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Correct Answer: The imaginary part of s

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What is the Laplace Transform?

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Correct Answer: An integral transform that converts a function from the time domain into a complex frequency domain.

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What is the observed process impact from an output is slower than the control rate called?

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Correct Answer: Lag

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What does LAG refer to?

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Correct Answer: The observed process impact from an output is slower than the control rate.

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What is a system called if the current output is only dependent on the current input?

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Correct Answer: Instantaneous

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What is the current output of a system that is instantaneous only dependent on?

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Correct Answer: The current input

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What does the Initial Value Theorem allow?

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Correct Answer: The initial conditions of the system to be determined from the Transfer function.

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What are the conditions of the system at time to?

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Correct Answer: The conditions of the system at the first time the system is stimulated.

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What does the term "Impulse Response" refer to?

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Correct Answer: The system output when the system is stimulated by an impulse input.

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What is the system output when the system is stimulated by an impulse input?

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Correct Answer: Impulse Response

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What is impulse?

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Correct Answer: A function denoted δ(t), that is the derivative of the unit step

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What is the unit step function?

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Correct Answer: A function that is the derivative of the unit impulse function.

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What are hybrid systems?

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Correct Answer: Systems which have both analog and digital components

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What is a hybrid system?

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Correct Answer: A system with both analog and digital components.

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What is homogeneity?

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Correct Answer: A system whose scaled input results in an equally scaled output.

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What is homogeniety?

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Correct Answer: The property of a system whose scaled input results in an equally scaled output.

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What did Harry Nyquist do?

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Correct Answer: Electrical Engineer

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For which field is Harry Nyquist known?

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Correct Answer: Information Theory

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What did Hendrik Wade Bode mostly work on?

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Correct Answer: Control theory and communications

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Which of the following is not one of Hendrik Wade Bode's achievements?

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Correct Answer: Introduction of the Bode plot

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What does an External System Description do?

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Correct Answer: Relates the system output to the system input, the system response, and a time constant through integration.

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What is gain?

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Correct Answer: A constant multiplier in a system that is typically implemented as an amplifier or attenuator.

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What is game theory?

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Correct Answer: A branch of study that is related to control engineering, and especially optimal control.

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What is the Fourier Transform of the impulse response?

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Correct Answer: Frequency Response

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What is the Frequency Response?

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Correct Answer: The response of a system to sinusoids of different frequencies.

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What does the final value theorem allow you to determine?

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Correct Answer: The steady-state value of a system

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What is signal filtering?

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Correct Answer: Rejecting undesirable components like noise from a signal.

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What is filtering?

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Correct Answer: Use of signal smoothing techniques to reject undesirable components like noise.

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What is the name of the process when apriori knowledge is used to forecast at least part of the control response?

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Correct Answer: Feedforward

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What is a system that relates the input of the system to the output without explicitly accounting for the internal states of the system?

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Correct Answer: External Description

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What is Exponential Weighted Average?

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Correct Answer: Apportions fractional weight to new and existing data to form a working average.

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What is the Exponential Weighted Average?

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Correct Answer: A method of calculating the average of a data set that gives more weight to recent data points

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What is Euler's Formula?

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Correct Answer: An equation that relates complex exponentials to complex sinusoids.

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What are Eigenvectors?

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Correct Answer: Nullspace vectors of the characteristic equation for particular eigenvalues.

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What are eigenvalues?

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Correct Answer: Solutions to the characteristic equation of a matrix

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What is a system called if it has both an infinite number of states, and an infinite number of state variables?

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Correct Answer: Distributed

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What does it mean if a system is distributed?

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Correct Answer: It has both an infinite number of states, and an infinite number of state variables.

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What is a discrete time system?

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Correct Answer: A system or signal that is only defined at specific points in time.

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Direct action is required when ____.

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Correct Answer: PV is below SP

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What is the ultimate goal of direct action?

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Correct Answer: Bring the process variable (PV) to setpoint (SP)

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What is a digital system?

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Correct Answer: A system that is both discrete-time, and quantized.

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What is "Lag" used for?

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Correct Answer: Dead time shift between the output change and the related effect

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What is "Deadtime"?

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Correct Answer: The time shift between the output change and the related effect

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What is the damping ratio?

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Correct Answer: A constant that determines the damping properties of a system.

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What does Damping Ratio determine?

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Correct Answer: The damping properties of a system.

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What does a compensator do?

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Correct Answer: A control system that augments the shortcomings of another system.

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What is a Closed Loop?

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Correct Answer: A controlled system using feedback or feedforward

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What is the name of the control methodology that uses the transform domain to analyze and manipulate the Input-Output characteristics of a system?

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Correct Answer: Classical Controls

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What does it mean when a system is causal?

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Correct Answer: The output does not depend on future inputs.

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What does Cascade mean?

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Correct Answer: When the output of a control loop is fed to/from another loop.

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What does BIBO stand for?

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Correct Answer: Bounded Input, Bounded Output

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What is plotted on the magnitude graph of a Bode plot?

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Correct Answer: Decibels vs. frequency

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What does a block diagram do?

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Correct Answer: It displays individual system components as boxes, and connections between systems as arrows.

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What does it mean if a system is additive?

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Correct Answer: A sum of inputs results in a sum of outputs.

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What is adaptive gain?

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Correct Answer: When control gain is varied depending on system state or condition, such as a disturbance.

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What is the main difference between adaptive control and normal control?

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Correct Answer: Adaptive control systems are able to change their response characteristics over time, while normal control systems cannot.

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What is the Acceleration Error Constant?

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Correct Answer: A system metric that determines that amount of acceleration error in the system.

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What is an Acceleration Error?

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Correct Answer: The amount of steady state error of the system when stimulated by a unit parabolic input.

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What is the amount of steady state error of the system when stimulated by a unit parabolic input?

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Correct Answer: Acceleration Error

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