Week 10 Control Systems
Week 10 Control Systems
In building a control system, we know that proper modification of the plant dynamics may be a simple
way to meet the performance specifications.
This, however, may not be possible in many practical situations because the plant may be fixed and not
modifiable.
Then we must adjust parameters other than those in the fixed plant.
Introduction
We have found that to achieve the desired system response, it is possible to
adjust the system parameters but it is often not enough.
Introduction
It is then required to reconsider the structure of the system and redesign the
system.
Speed of response.
Steady-state error.
◦ Series Compensation
◦ Parallel Compensation
Compensator Configurations
The choice between series compensation and parallel
compensation depends on
◦ the nature of the signals
◦ available components
◦ lag compensators
◦ lag–lead compensators
Commonly Used Compensators
Among the many kinds of compensators, widely employed
compensators are the
◦ lead compensators
◦ If a sinusoidal input is applied to the input of a network, and the steady-state output (which is also sinusoidal) has a phase lead,
then the network is called a lead network.
Commonly Used Compensators
Among the many kinds of compensators, widely employed
compensators are the
◦ lag compensators
◦ If the steady-state output has a phase lag, then the network is called a lag network.
Commonly Used Compensators
Among the many kinds of compensators, widely employed
compensators are the
◦ lag–lead compensators
◦ In a lag–lead network, both phase lag and phase lead occur in the output but in different frequency regions.
◦ Phase lag occurs in the low-frequency region and phase lead occurs in the high-frequency region.
Commonly Used Compensators
We will limit our discussions mostly to lead, lag, and lag–lead compensators realized by
◦ Electronic devices such as circuits using operational amplifiers