Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department

UEI501: Control Systems

Tutorial 4

Q1. Consider a motor-shaft system shown in Fig. 4.1 whose dynamics is defined
by a first-order differential equation
J  (t ) + b (t ) = Ts (t )
where J>0, b>0, Ts = T0u(t ) , T0  0 and u(t) is a step input. Due to no spin down,
 (t = 0) = 0 . Determine the time-domain solution.

Fig. 4.1

Q2 Determine the impulse response, steady-state value and DC gain of a system

whose transfer function is given by
2
G(s) = 2
s + 8s + 15

Q3 s+5 s + 10
Find the poles and zeros of G1 ( s) = , G2 ( s) = , and
( s + 10) 2
( s + 10) 2
1
G3 ( s) = ml .
b g
s +
2
s+
ml l

Q4 Obtain f(t) if
s3 − 3s 2 + s + 2
F ( s) = H (s)
s
where H(s) is well-behaved function of s, whose inverse Laplace transform is
h(t).

Q5 Determine the step response of the following.

1 s+z
G1 ( s) = and G2 ( s) =
s+ p s+ p

Comment upon the observations.