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Control System: Multivector Review and Training Center

The document defines key terms related to control systems, including system, control system, input, output, feedback, block diagram, and canonical form. It explains that a control system is an arrangement of components that regulates itself or another system. A block diagram provides a pictorial representation of the relationships between a system's input and output. The canonical form shows the standard configuration for a feedback control system, with forward and feedback transfer functions and equations for the control ratio, actuating signal, and primary feedback ratio.

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Control System: Multivector Review and Training Center

The document defines key terms related to control systems, including system, control system, input, output, feedback, block diagram, and canonical form. It explains that a control system is an arrangement of components that regulates itself or another system. A block diagram provides a pictorial representation of the relationships between a system's input and output. The canonical form shows the standard configuration for a feedback control system, with forward and feedback transfer functions and equations for the control ratio, actuating signal, and primary feedback ratio.

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Multivector Review and Training Center

Control System

System an arrangement, set or collection of things connected or related in such a


manner as to form an entirety or whole.

Control System an arrangement of physical components connected or related in


such a manner as to command, direct or regulate itself or another system.

Input is the stimulus or excitation applied to a control system from an external


source, usually in order to produce a specified response from the control system.

Output is the actual response obtained from a control system. It may or may not
be equal to the specified response implied by the input.

Feedback is that property of a closed-loop system which permits the output (or
some other controlled variable of the system) to be compared with the input to the
system (or an input to some other internally situated component or subsystem of
the system) so that the appropriate action may be formed as some function of the
output and input.

Block Diagram is a shorthand, pictorial representation of the cause and effect


relationship between the input and output of a physical system.

Input Output
r(t) System c(t)

Block Diagram Representation of a System

Input Output
r(t) Subsystem Subsystem Subsystem c(t)

Note: r(t) = the input, stands for reference input


c(t) = the output, stands for controlled variable

Canonical Form of a Feedback Control System

+ E
R E C
+
B
H

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where: G = direct transfer function or forward transfer function


H = feedback transfer function
GH = (open) loop transfer function
C/R = closed-loop transfer function = control ratio
E/R = actuating signal = error signal
B/R = primary feedback ratio

In the following equations, the negative (-) sign refers to a positive feedback
system and the positive (+) sign refers to a negative feedback system.

C G

R 1 GH
B GH

R 1 GH
E 1

R 1 GH
B
GH
E
C
G
E

For unity feedback system, H = 1

C G

R 1 G

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