Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE Control Systems PYQs
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Questions 11–20 of 56. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 12
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In the context of Bode magnitude plots, 40 dB/decade is the same as ______.
Your answerChoose one option.
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In the feedback control system shown in the figure below,
. 
,
, and
are the Laplace transforms of
,
, and
, respectively. If the input
is a unit step function, then ________.Your answerChoose one option.
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Consider a unity negative feedback control system with forward path gain
as shown.

The impulse response of the closed-loop system decays faster than
if ______.Your answerChoose one option.
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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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A closed loop system is shown in the figure where
and
. The steady state error due to a ramp input (
) is given by 
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In the following block diagram,
and
are two inputs. The output
is expressed as
.
and
are given by 
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The state equation of a second order system is
,
is the initial condition. Suppose
and
are two distinct eigenvalues of
and
and
are the corresponding eigenvectors. For constants
and
, the solution,
, of the state equation 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
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