Control Systems Engineering

ECN401
Q1. Identify whether the following examples belong to open loop control system or closed loop
control system:
a) Electric heater
b) Washing machine
c) Automatic toaster
d) Automatic clothes ion
e) Traffic lights system
f) Refrigerator

Q2. Identify the organ-system components, and describe the operation of the biological control
system consisting of a human being reaching for an object.

Q3. Explain the operation of ordinary traffic signals which control automobile traffic at roadway
intersections. Why are they open loop control systems? How traffic can be controlled more
efficiently and why it becomes closed-loop?

Q4. Identify the input and output of electric automatic coffee maker? Is the system open loop or
closed loop?

Q5. Reduce the following block diagrams to a single transfer function:

(a)
(b)

(c) (d)
Q6. Convert the block diagram of figure (c) to a signal flow graph.

Q7. Draw a signal flow graph and evaluate the closed loop transfer function of a system whose
block diagram is given below:

Q8. Figure below gives the signal flow graph of a system with two inputs and two outputs. Find expressions for the
outputs C1 and C2. Also determine the condition that makes C1, independent of R2 and C2 independent of R1:

Q9. Construct a signal flow graph for the given resistor network

Q10. Draw the block diagram and signal flow graph of the circuit shown below: