AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY – BANGLADESH (AIUB)

Faculty of Engineering
Course/Lab Name: Modern Control Systems Section: B Term: Final Semester: Fall
Assignment: 01 Total Marks: 30 Submission Deadline: 19 December 2021

Student Name:

Student ID: − − Department:

1. Write your name and ID
2. Change the file name to the middle 5 digits of your ID (Example: the student with ID 19-12345-1 will write the file
name 12345)
3. ID value will be the last digit of your ID minus 1. Example: If your ID is 19-12345-1, ID = 1-1 =0
4. Solve the problems on paper and attach the snap shots of those pages with this doc file
5. Convert the doc file to the pdf and send it to the Final Assessment Submission Folder.

CO3: Utilize the information and knowledge of Transfer Function and Root Locus to analyze a
complex engineering problem.

Marking Rubrics (to be filled by Faculty):

Indicat Excellent Acceptable Poor Secured

Objectives
or [10-8] [7-5] [4-1] Marks
Depth of
knowledge • Student was able to apply • Design process is not • Design process contains
displayed in-depth engineering completely supported by mistakes and does not
through knowledge about modern in-depth engineering display enough in-depth
proper P1 control systems to design knowledge about modern engineering modern control
design of an appropriate compensator control systems, some but systems. Most of the
appropriate correctly and fulfilled all not all of the design design criteria are not
compensato design criteria. criteria are fulfilled. fulfilled.
r
• Student’s attempts to
• Student defended the analyze the diversified
diversified approach taken approach taken to solve the • Student did not attempt
Depth of to solve the problem with problem is not enough in- any in-depth analysis of
analysis P3 well-justified in-depth depth, some of design the designed system and
analysis that choices do not displayed no abstract
demonstrated abstract demonstrate adequate thinking.
thinking. abstract thinking and are
not properly justified.
• Student correctly identified
the type of compensator • Student was able to identify • Student was only able to
Level of
he/she is supposed to the type of compensator identify the type of
integration
design and successfully correctly and integrated the compensator correctly but
of multiple
integrated the interdependent parts into a could not integrated the
stage
P7 interdependent parts into a high-level design using a interdependent parts into a
analysis for
high-level design using a block diagram. high-level design.
solution of
block diagram. • Compensator was not a • Compensator was not a
high-level
• Compensator was at best proper match with the given match with the given
problem
match with the given problem. problem.
problem.

Comments
Total marks (out of 30)
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The block diagram shown in Figure 1 represents an unmanned car’s speed function.

Accelerator/Braker Speed Dynamics

Desired Speed Actual Speed
𝑮𝒄 (𝒔) 𝑮𝒖 (𝒔)

Figure 1: Unmanned car’s speed control system.

𝑹𝑼 (𝒔) 𝟑 𝑪𝑼 (𝒔)
𝟐 𝟕
𝟕𝒔𝑰𝑫 𝒔 𝒔+𝟒

Figure 2: Detail model of the plant (Speed Dynamics).

Here,
𝐺𝑢 (𝑠) 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑏𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒 2

Requirements:
1. Derive the plant’s transfer function, GU(s) and the overall transfer function of the uncompensated
system.
2. Sketch the root locus of the uncompensated system.
3. Determine the gain of the system at an overshoot of 12% [use a suitable simulation tool].
4. Determine the steady-state error of the uncompensated system for ramp input. If the steady state
error is non-zero, design an appropriate compensator to make it zero. However, If the steady state
error is zero design an appropriate compensator for an ID+3 fold reduction in settling time.
5. Compare the step response of compensated and uncompensated system using appropriate simulation
tools (i.e. MATLAB).

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