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Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems MCQ

1. What is the Z-Transform?

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Correct Answer: An integral transform that is related to the Laplace transform through a change of variables.

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2. What is the Z-transform used for?

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Correct Answer: Primarily with digital systems

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3. What is ZOH?

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Correct Answer: Zero order hold

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4. What is Zero State Response?

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Correct Answer: The response of the system with zero system state.

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5. What is the output of the system with zero state response?

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Correct Answer: The output of the system depends only on the system input

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6. What is the response of a system with zero external input called?

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Correct Answer: Zero Input Response

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7. What does a zero value for s in a transfer function cause the transfer function to become?

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Correct Answer: Zero

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8. What is the "I" contribution of PID?

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Correct Answer: Control correction with an appropriate component

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9. Wind-up occurs when the numerics of computed control adjustment ______.

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Correct Answer: Yield control correction with an inappropriate component unless prevented

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10. What is the W-plane?

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Correct Answer: Reference plane used in the bilinear transform

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11. What is the W-plane reference plane used for?

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Correct Answer: Bi-linear transform

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12. What is the Velocity Error Constant?

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Correct Answer: A constant that determines that amount of velocity error in a system.

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13. What is the amount of steady-state error when the system is stimulated by a ramp input?

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Correct Answer: Velocity Error

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14. What is the transfer function of a Unity feedback system?

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Correct Answer: 1

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15. What is Unit Step?

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Correct Answer: An input defined by {\displaystyle u(t)}{\displaystyle u(t)}

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16. U(t) is defined as

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Correct Answer: Unit Step

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17. What does MIMO stand for?

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Correct Answer: Matrix in, matrix out

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18. What is the Laplace transform of the state-space equations of a system called?

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Correct Answer: Transfer Function Matrix

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19. 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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20. What does it mean if a system is time-invariant?

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Correct Answer: An input time-shifted by an arbitrary delay produces an output shifted by that same delay.

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21. In a system, what does the number of ideal integrators determine?

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Correct Answer: System Type

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22. System Type refers to the:

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Correct Answer: Number of ideal integrators in the system

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23. What is System Identification?

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Correct Answer: Trying to identify the system characterization, typically through least squares analysis of input, output and noise data vectors

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24. What is the condition of superposition?

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Correct Answer: Additive and homogeneous

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25. What does "steady state" refer to?

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Correct Answer: The output value of the system as time approaches infinity.

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26. What is the output value of the system called when time approaches infinity?

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Correct Answer: Steady State

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27. What is a unit step?

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Correct Answer: A setpoint change for setpoint tracking.

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28. What does BIBO stand for?

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Correct Answer: Bounded-Input, Bounded-Output

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29. What does Lyapunov Stability refer to?

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Correct Answer: The system output cannot approach infinity as time approaches infinity.

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30. What is a State-Variable?

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Correct Answer: A vector that describes the internal state of the system.

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31. What are state-space equations?

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Correct Answer: A set of equations that relates the input, the system state, and the output.

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32. What does the state-space equation consist of?

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Correct Answer: The state equation and the output equation

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33. What is the state-transition matrix?

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Correct Answer: A coefficient matrix that relates how the system state changes in response to the system input.

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34. What is a State Transition Matrix?

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Correct Answer: A coefficient matrix that relates how the system state changes in response to the system input

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35. What is a state equation?

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Correct Answer: An equation that relates the future states of a system with the current state and the current system input.

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36. What is the Star Transform?

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Correct Answer: A version of the Laplace Transform that acts on discrete signals.

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37. What is "BIBO Stability"?

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Correct Answer: A system with a well-behaved input will result in a well-behaved output.

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38. What is the designed operation region of an item called?

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Correct Answer: Span

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39. What is the typical band for a system's oscillatory response to be damped to within the steady-state value?

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Correct Answer: 10%

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40. What is the S-Domain?

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

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41. What is the Laplace Transform of a signal or system?

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Correct Answer: S-Domain

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42. What does SCADA stand for?

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Correct Answer: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

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43. What is the amount of time between samples in a discrete system?

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Correct Answer: Sampling time

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44. What is the sampling time in a discrete system?

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Correct Answer: The amount of time between samples.

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45. What does robust control deal with?

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Correct Answer: Systems subject to external and internal noise and disruptions.

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46. What is Control Engineering?

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Correct Answer: A branch of engineering that deals with the control of systems

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47. What is the typical range for Rise Time?

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Correct Answer: 80%

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48. Which of the following is true when the PV is below SP?

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Correct Answer: The output needs to be increased to bring PV to SP.

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49. What does it mean if a system is relaxed?

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Correct Answer: The initial conditions are zero.

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50. What is a ramp?

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Correct Answer: A ramp is defined by the function {\displaystyle tu(t)}{\displaystyle tu(t)}

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51. What is a ramp defined by?

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

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52. What is the output type for Raise-Lower?

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Correct Answer: Present position

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53. What type of output is Raise-Lower Output?

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Correct Answer: Type that works from present position rather than as a completely new computed spanned output

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54. What does PV stand for?

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Correct Answer: Process Variable

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55. What is the pulse response?

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Correct Answer: The response of a digital system to a unit step input, in terms of the transfer matrix.

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56. A unit step input is also known as a:

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Correct Answer: Pulse Response

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57. What does PSD stand for?

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Correct Answer: Power Spectral Density

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58. Which of the following is true about positive feedback?

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Correct Answer: The system output is added to the system input

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59. What does the Position Error Constant determine?

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Correct Answer: The position error of a system

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60. What is Position Error Constant?

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Correct Answer: A constant that determines the position error of a system.

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61. What causes position error?

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Correct Answer: A system stimulated by a unit step input

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62. What is the purpose of the Pole-Zero Form?

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Correct Answer: To factor the transfer function so that the locations of all the poles and zeros are clearly evident.

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63. What is the Pole-Zero Form?

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Correct Answer: The transfer function is factored so that the locations of all the poles and zeros are clearly evident.

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64. What does PLC stand for?

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Correct Answer: Programmable Logic Controller

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65. What does Plant refer to in the context?

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

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66. What does the acronym "PID" stand for?

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Correct Answer: Proportional-Integral-Derivative

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67. What is the final value in the limit that drives system stability?

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

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68. What is the meaning of Percent Overshoot (PO)?

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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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69. What is the PO?

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Correct Answer: Percent Overshoot

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70. 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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71. What is a parabolic input defined by?

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Correct Answer: {\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2}}t^{2}u(t)}{\displaystyle {\frac {1}{2}}t^{2}u(t)

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72. What does "overshoot" refer to in the context of systems?

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Correct Answer: The extent of system response against desired setpoint tracking.

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73. What is Overshoot?

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Correct Answer: The extent of system response against desired

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74. Output equation relates the ____ to the ____.

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Correct Answer: Current system input, current system state

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75. What is the order of a polynomial?

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Correct Answer: Highest exponent of the independent variable

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76. 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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77. What is an open loop system?

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Correct Answer: A system that is not closed

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78. What did Oliver Heaviside introduce?

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Correct Answer: The Laplace Transform

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79. What does offset refer to?

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

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80. What is "offset"?

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

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81. What is the full form of OCTAVE?

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

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82. What branch of control engineering deals with non-linear systems?

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Correct Answer: Nonlinear Control

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83. What is nonlinear control?

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

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84. 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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