Home exam

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Soleiman.najafi@gmail.com.

1. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

The control of the recording head of a dual actuator hard disk drive (HDD) requires two types of actuators to
achieve the required high areal density. The first is a coarse voice coil motor (VCM) with large stroke but slow
dynamics and the second is a fine piezo-electric transducer (PZT) with a small stroke and fast dynamics. A sensor
measures the head position and the position error is fed to a separate controller for each actuator. Draw a block
diagram for a dual actuator digital control system for the HDD 1
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Reference
Position Control Coarse Recording
Computer DAC VCM +
Controller Head

Fine DAC PZT

Controller

ADC Position
Sensor

a) find the plant and find the control system and its components (actuator, sensor and controllers)

b) what is the duty of control system?

c) find and show me the control inputs, outputs.

d) what signals could be define as noise or disturbances for this system?

1J. Ding, F. Marcassa, S.-C. Wu, and M. Tomizuka, “Multirate control for Computational Saving”, IEEE Trans. Control
Systems Tech., Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 165-169.

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2) which ones of the signals show in the Table 1.1 could not be used to check BIBO stability of a system and why?

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3) What is the meaning of STATE in a state space modeling? Define it with an example.

4) Think about yourself, Are you a Linear Time Invariant System? EXPLAINE THE ANSWER.

5) What is the meaning of Unstable Pole in real environment?