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Mahatma Education Society’s

Pillai HOC College of Engineering and Technology

Program: BE Electrical Engineering

Curriculum Scheme: Revised 2016
Examination: Third Year Semester VI
Course Code: EEC605 and Course Name: Control System - II
Time: 1 hour Max. Marks: 50
Note to the students: - All the Questions are compulsory and carry equal marks.
Q1. With regard to the filtering capacity the lead compensator and lag
compensator are respectively
Option A: Low pass and high pass filter
Option B: Both high pass filter
Option C: Both low pass filters
Option D: High pass and low pass filter

Q2. Which of the following statement is incorrect?

Option A: lag compensator always stabilizes unstable system
Option B: lag compensator reduces steady state error
Option C: lead compensator reduces settling time
Option D: lead compensator increases order of system

Q3. Which of the following is/are represents the lag compensator?

Option A: (s + 2) / (s + 1)
Option B: (s + 2) / (s + 5)
Option C: (s + 5) / (s + 6)
Option D: (s + 12) / (s + 13)

Q4. The compensator G(s) =4 (1 + 0.15s) / (1 + 0.05s) would provide a maximum

phase shift lead is equal to
Option A: 15°
Option B: 30°
Option C: 60°
Option D: 45°

Q5. In lag compensator the damping ratio, gain and steady state error (ess) are
Option A: Decreases, Decreases and Increases
Option B: Decreases, Increases and Increases
Option C: Increases, Increases and Decreases
Option D: Increases, Decreases and Decreases

Q6. The number of root locus branches which do not terminate at zeros is given
by
Option A: Number of zeros
Option B: Number of poles
Option C: Number of poles + Number of zeros
Option D: Number of poles - Number of zeros

Q7. Root locus diagram exhibit which of the following

Option A: Response of system to step input
Option B: Frequency response of system
Option C: Poles of system for set of parameter values
Option D: Bandwidth of system

Q8. The characteristic equation of a closed loop system is s (s + 1) (s + 2) + K = 0,

The centroid of the asymptotes in root locus will be
Option A: 1
Option B: -1
Option C: 3
Option D: -3

Q9. Given a unity feedback system with G(s) = K / s (s + 10), the value of K for
damping ratio of 0.7 is
Option A: 7.14
Option B: 1.4
Option C: 51
Option D: 10

Q10. In frequency domain the speed of response is measured in terms of

Option A: Resonant frequency
Option B: Bandwidth
Option C: Resonant peak and bandwidth
Option D: Maximum peak overshoot

Q11. The compensator transfer function can be placed in

Option A: Cascade or series compensation
Option B: Feedback or parallel compensation
Option C: Positive
Option D: Negative

Q12. If the transfer function of a phase lead compensator is (s + a) / (s + b) and

that of a lag compensator is (s + p) / (s + q), then which one of the following
sets of conditions must be satisfied?
Option A: a > b, p > q
Option B: a > b, p < q
Option C: a < b, p < q
Option D: a < b, p >q

Q13. Which of the following are the not characteristics of the closed loop systems?
Option A: It does not compensate for disturbance
Option B: It reduces the sensitivity of plant parameter variations
Option C: It does not involve output measurements
Option D: It does not have the ability to control the system transient response

Q14. State space approach can be applied for

Option A: linear system only
Option B: Nonlinear system only
Option C: Both linear & nonlinear system
Option D: Linear time variant system only

Q15. For a system, x=Ax+Bu, y=Cx+Du the transfer function can be given as,
Option A: C[SI-A]-1 B + A
Option B: C[SI-A]-1 B + D
Option C: D[SI-A]-1 B + D
Option D: D[SI-A]-1 B + C

Q16. Which one of the following is the correct expression for the transfer function
of an electrical RC phase lag compensating network?
Option A: RCs / (1+ RCs)
Option B: RC / (1+ RCs)
Option C: 1 / (1+ RCs)
Option D: RCs / (s+ RC)

Q17. The unity feedback transfer function is G(s) = K / [(s + 1) (s + 2) (s + 3)] ,

breakaway point lie between
Option A: -1 and -2
Option B: -2 and -3
Option C: 0 and -1
Option D: 1 and 2

Q18. Insertion of negative feedback in control system affects

Option A: The transient response to vanish uniformly
Option B: The transient response to decay very fast
Option C: No change in transient response
Option D: The transient response decays at slow rate

Q19. A unity feedback control system has G(s)= K / [s (s + 4) (s2 + 4s + 20)] with 0
< K < ∞ What is the number of breakaway points in the root locus diagram
Option A: 0
Option B: 1
Option C: 2
Option D: 3

Q20. A lag compensator

Option A: Speeds up the transient response of system
Option B: Deteriorate steady state behaviors of the system
Option C: Improves steady state behaviors and speeds up the transient response of the
system
Option D: Improves steady state behaviors and preserves the transient response of the
system

Q21. Actual characteristic equation for observer design using observer canonical
form is given as
Option A: det [sI – (A - LC)]
Option B: det [sI – (A - LB)]
Option C: det [sI – (A - LD)]
Option D: det [sI – (A - LE)]

Q22. The order of controllability test matrix, Qc depends on

Option A: No. of state variables
Option B: No. of state vectors
Option C: Order of STM
Option D: No. of phase variables

Q23. A transfer function of the system does not have pole-zero cancellation, which
of the following statements is true?
Option A: System is neither controllable nor observable
Option B: System is completely controllable and observable
Option C: System is observable but uncontrollable
Option D: System is controllable and unobservable

Q24. A system is said to be_____________ if it is possible to transfer the system state

from any initial state to any desired state in finite interval of time.
Option A: Controllable
Option B: Observable
Option C: Cannot be determined
Option D: Controllable and observable

Q25. Stability of a digital system can be checked using

Option A: s-plane
Option B: t-plane
Option C: σ - plane
Option D: z-plane