Biological Control Systems: Biomedical Engineering - Bcs - Short Questions and Answers
Biological Control Systems: Biomedical Engineering - Bcs - Short Questions and Answers
PART-A
1. Define system.
It is an arrangement of physical components related in such a manner as to form an
entire unit.
(or)
A group of elements or components are arranged in a sequence to perform a
specific function is called system.
3. Define Feedback.
The feedback is a control action, in which the output is sampled and a proportional
signal is given to input for automatic correction of any changes in desired output.
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12. What is meant by type number of the system? Give its significance.
The type number is given by number of poles of loop transfer function at the
origin. The type number of the system decides the steady state error.
16. Define response. Mention the test signals used to determine time
response.
The time response is the output of the closed loop system as a function of time. It
is denoted by c(t).
The commonly used test signals in control system are Impulse, Step, Ramp,
Acceleration and Sinusoidal signals.
Settling time:
It is the time required for the response curve to stay with in tolerance band.
Normally 2% (or) 5% tolerance band are used. It is denoted as ts.
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2. What are the conditions for a linear time invariant system to be stable?
A linear time- invariant system is stable if the following two notions of system
stability are satisfied.
When the system is by a bounded input, the output is bounded.
In the absence of the input, the output tends towards zero irrespective of
initial conditions.
elements of the first column of Routh‟s array corresponds to the number of roots of
characteristic equation in the right half of the S-plane.
16. How will you find the root locus on real axis?
To find the root locus on real axis, choose a test point on the real axis. If the
total number of poles and zeros on the real axis to the right of this test point is odd
number, then the test point lies on the root locus. If it is even number means, then the
test point does not lie on the root locus.
19. How will you find the gain K at a point on the root locus?
The gain K at a point S= Sa on root locus is given by K= product of length of vectors
from open loop zero to the point Sa product of length of vectors from open loop poles
to the point Sa.
The zero which is closer to the origin than all over zeros is known as dominating
zero.
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9. List the frequency domain methods to find the stability of the system.
The commonly used frequency domain methods to sketch the frequency response of
the systems are
Bode plot
Polar plot
Nyquist plot
Nichol‟s chart
11. Give the factors of G(jw) used in the construction of bode plots.
The factors of G(jw) used in the construction of bode plot are:
Constant gain K
Poles at the origin
Poles on the real axis
Zero on the real axis
Complex conjugate poles, zeros.
straight line is drawn with a slope of 20 db/dec for frequency range ωc of 10^(infinity).
Here ωc is corner frequency.
17. What happens to the damping ratio and rise time if the band width is
increased?
A large band width corresponds to a small rise time or fast response so band
width in inversely proportional to the speed of response, so as BW is increased damping
ratio and rise time both reduces.
19. What are the two methods of specifying the performance of control
system?
i. By a set of specifications in time domain or in frequency domain such as peak
overshoot, setting time, gain margin, phase margin, steady state error etc.
ii. By optimality of certain function
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7. Define Hormones.
Hormones are chemical substances that affect the activity of another part of
the body. In essence hormones serve as messengers, controlling and coordinating
activities throughout the body. It controls the function of entire organs.
9. Define adaptive.
Adaptive means that the system may be able to offset any change in output not
only through the feedback but also by allowing the controller or plant characteristics
to change.