Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE concept:transfer-function PYQs
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Question 19
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A control system is shown in the Figure.
Which option represents the correct transfer function of the system?

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For the control system shown in the Figure, the transfer function of a plant,
is connected in cascade with a compensator
, where
and
are positive real valued constants. Which of the following pairs
represent the correct values for the closed loop system to have poles at
? 
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The state and output equations for a control system are:
Which of the following expressions correctly represents the transfer function
of the system with zero initial conditions?Your answerChoose one option.
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Let
be the transfer function of a second-order system. A controller
is connected to the system
in the configuration shown below.Consider the following statements.
(i) There exists no controller of the form
, where
is a positive real number, such that the closed loop system is stable.(ii) There exists at least one controller of the form
, where
and
are positive real numbers, such that the closed loop system is stable.Which one of the following options is correct?

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A satellite attitude control system, as shown below, has a plant with transfer function
cascaded with a compensator
, where
and
are positive real constants. 
In order for the closed-loop system to have poles at
, the value of
must be ______.Your answerChoose one option.
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Consider a system
represented in state space as
. Which of the state space representations given below has/have the same transfer function as that of
?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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The open loop transfer function of a unity negative feedback system is
, where
,
and
are positive constants. The phase crossover frequency, in rad/s, isYour answerChoose one option.
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The asymptotic magnitude Bode plot of a minimum phase system is shown in the figure

. The transfer function of the system is
, where
and
are positive constants. The value of
is ______ (rounded off to the nearest integer).Log in to check the answer
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Consider a closed-loop control system with unity negative feedback and
in the forward path, where the gain
. The complete Nyquist plot of the transfer function
is shown in the figure. Note that the Nyquist contour has been chosen to have the clockwise sense. Assume
has no poles on the closed right-half of the complex plane. The number of poles of the closed-loop transfer function in the closed right-half of the complex plane is ____________. 
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The root-locus plot of a closed-loop system with unity negative feedback and transfer function
in the forward path is shown in the figure. Note that
is varied from 0 to
.Select the transfer function
that results in the root-locus plot of the closed-loop system as shown in the figure. 
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