Transfer Function

De La Salle Lipa
College of Information Technology and Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department
Transfer Function
For single-input, single-output system with input x(t) and
output y(t), the transfer function relating the output to the
input is defined as:
PROPERTIES OF A TRANSFER
2. The system transfer
FUNCTION function can be determined
1. The TRANSFER from the system differential
FUNCTION of a system equation by taking the
is the Laplace transform Laplace transform and
of its IMPULSE ignoring all terms arising
RESPONSE. That is, if from initial values. The
the input to a system transfer function T(s) is then
with transfer function given by
T(s) is an impulse and
all initial values are
zero, the transform of
the output is Y(s).
PROPERTIES OF A TRANSFER
FUNCTION
3. The system differential 4. The stability of time-variant
can be obtained from
the transfer function by
replacing the s variable
with the differential
operator D defined by
D=d/dt.
linear system can be
determined from the
characteristic equation. The
denominator of the system
transfer function set equal to
zero is the characteristic
equation. Consequently if all
the roots of the denominator
have negative real parts, the
system is stable.
PROPERTIES OF A TRANSFER
FUNCTION
5. The roots of the denominator
are the system poles and the
roots of the numerator are the
system zeros. The system
transfer function can then be
specified to within a constant
by specifying the system
poles and zeros. This
constant, usually denoted by
K, is the system gain-factor.
STANDARD INPUTS TO CONTROL SYSTEMS
SINGULARITY FUNCTION
In the study of control systems and the equations which
describe them, a particular family of functions called
singularity functions is used extensively. Each member of
this family is related to the others by one or more
integrations or differentiations. The three most widely
used singularity functions are the UNIT STEP, the UNIT
IMPULSE, and the UNIT RAMP.
SINGULARITY FUNCTION
SINGULARITY FUNCTION