THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY – LEVEL 6

ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015
ASSIGNMENT # 02
MEX6273 ADVANCED CONTROL ENGINEERING

INSTRUCTIONS

1. You are supposed to prepare a presentation and present your results on or before 13 th of
June 2015 to the academic coordinator.
2. Direct copying from web resources or Books is strictly prohibited.
3. You may use Harvard Referencing or any other standard method for referencing.

Answer all questions.

Q1.

(a) Explain sample and hold. Obtain the frequency response of zero-order hold.
(b) Define the stability of discrete control systems. Explain Jury’s test of stability.

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Q2. The plant 𝑃(𝑧) = (𝑧−1)(𝑧−2) is to be controlled with a pure-gain controller 𝐹(𝑧) = 𝑘.

(a) Using the Jury criterion, calculate the range of 𝑘 for which the closed loop system is
stable.
(b) Sketch the root Locus.

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Q3. For the system 𝑥̇ = [ ] 𝑥 + [ ] 𝑢, 𝑦 = [1 0]𝑥
−1 −1 −1

(a) Compute the sampled-data state representation with 𝑥 as the state vector as a function
of the sampling period 𝑇𝑠 .
(b) Verify that the eigenvalues of the discrete-time system are 𝑒 −𝑠𝑖 𝑇𝑠 where 𝑠𝑖 the
eigenvalues of the continuous-time system are.
(c) Compute the pulse transfer function.

NOTE:
1. You can take up to 15 minutes for your presentation.
2. You may use MATLAB to explain the analysis.

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