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This midterm exam for an Automatic Control course consists of 4 questions regarding spring-mass-damper systems, transfer functions, and block diagram reduction. Question 1 asks students to (a) determine differential equations of motion, (b) find a transfer function, and (c) obtain a state-space model for a 2 mass spring-damper system. Question 2 involves (a) calculating the unit step response and (b) finding the steady-state value for a given transfer function. Question 3 asks students to perform block diagram reduction to find a transfer function for a position control system. Question 4 uses Mason's rule to find the transfer function for a given system diagram.

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ME 408 Automatic Control - MidSp2021 PDF

This midterm exam for an Automatic Control course consists of 4 questions regarding spring-mass-damper systems, transfer functions, and block diagram reduction. Question 1 asks students to (a) determine differential equations of motion, (b) find a transfer function, and (c) obtain a state-space model for a 2 mass spring-damper system. Question 2 involves (a) calculating the unit step response and (b) finding the steady-state value for a given transfer function. Question 3 asks students to perform block diagram reduction to find a transfer function for a position control system. Question 4 uses Mason's rule to find the transfer function for a given system diagram.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jalozai Campus,

University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar

ME-408 Automatic Control, 8th Semester


Mid Term Examination, Spring 2021
Maximum Marks : 100 Time allowed: 02 hours
INSTRUCTIONS
 Answer all the questions. Show the detailed work.
 This exam is open-book and open-notes, so you are required to complete your work
independently with no consultation with anyone else.
 The 15 minutes extra time is given for uploading the exam in Google classroom.

Q 1. In a mechanical spring-mass-damper system as shown in the Figure (a) below, the


mass is attached with the fixed surface through a spring element of stiffness and
the two masses & are coupled together with the spring element having stiffness
and a damper having a damping coefficient . The force is applied to the mass .
The displacements of masses & are denoted by and respectively; do the
following: (CLO1, PLO1)

(a) (10%) Determine the governing differential equations of motion for the given
mechanical system shown in Fig. (a) above.
(b) (10%) Find the transfer function between the control input and the output .
(c) (10%) Obtain the state-space model in vector-matrix form, where is the input
and is the output of the spring-mass-damper system.

( )
Q2. For a system with the transfer function as: ( ) (CLO1, PLO1)
( )( )
(a) (20%) Calculate the unit step response of the system.
(b) (05%) Determine the steady-state value of the unit step response by letting .

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Q 3. (25%) The position control is designed by a control engineer for the desired
course of a dynamical system. The block diagram of the system is shown in the Fig. (b)
below, where ( ) is the actual position of the dynamical system and ( ) is its desired
position. Perform the block diagram reduction in order to compute the transfer function

for this system. (CLO2, PLO2)

( )
Q 4. (20%) Using Mason’s rule, find the transfer function, ( ) , for the system
( )
shown in the following Figure (c).

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