NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROURKELA

Department of Electrical Engineering

End-Semester Examination (Supplementary), 2020-2021 (Spring)
Program: B.Tech in Electrical Engineering.
Semester: 6th
Subject Name: Control System II
Subject Code: EE 3302
Number of Pages: 2 Full Marks: 50 Duration: 2 Hours
Figures at the right hand margin indicate marks.
All questions carry 2.5 marks; for each question correct detection will help you to score 0.5, and 2 marks is reserved for justification.
Detect whether the following statement is true or false and justify your statement
1. For an LTI system, the number of trajectories in the state space is exactly equal to the number of state
variables.

2. The introduction of a memoryless piecewise-linear nonlinear element is comparatively less worrying as

far as a pice-wise linear nonlinear system with memory is concerned.

3. When we connect an n-dimensional system with an m-dimensional system, the order of the A matrix
becomes n-m, only when there is no pole-zero cancellations occur between the two cascaded systems.

4. An autonomous system is a force-free system, but its parameters may depend on time.

5. For a unity feedback system with the open-loop transfer function, which is a proper transfer function
with the specification as follows: type 2 and order 3. The dimension of the close loop state model will
become less than or equal to 5.

6. Pole placement using state feedback by utilizing the Ackermann Procedure increases the order of the
closed-loop system by 1.

7. For a square matrix A, the spectral norm of A is less than its smallest eigenvalue.

8. If there is no pole-zero cancellation, then for a SISO system with P number of poles and Z number of
zeros, we need to differentiate the output (P+Z) times to establish an explicit relationship between input
d2 y
2
 10 y 2  4u
and output. (example of explicit appearance is dt

9. For an LTI system, BIBO stability is possible only when all the eigen values of the A matrix are having
negative real parts.

10. The system (shown in the adjacent diagram) is three-dimensional.

Original Exam was conducted in Online mode, using MS team form, where order of appearance of the
questions were shuffled to ensure fairness of the exam. However, the questions remain same as they were in
the MS form.
 11. For a system, in which the A matrix is a hermitian matrix, it can't exhibit an oscillatory output response.

12. For a linear system state-space equation, there will be n number of equilibrium points, in which n is the
order of the state space system.

13. Pole placement design is only possible for a system only when the decoupled state model does not have a
complete row with all entries equal to zero.

14. The given transfer function represents a system that is both controllable and observable.
( s  2)
T .F 
( s  6 s 2  11s  6)
3

15. A nonlinear system subject to external input can be linearized along the nominal state trajectory, while
the system is subjected to nominal input.

16. For an LTI system, if a system is uncontrollable, then we can readily conclude that the system is
unobservable too.

17. The inverse of a negative definite complex matrix exhibits positive sign definiteness.

18. For a linear system, the Uniform- asymptotic stability implies uniform exponential stability.

19. In general, the null space of the controllability gramian is the same as the null space of the controllability
matrix.

20. If we don't take any approximation and do a straightforward conversion into state-space form, the A
(1  exp(0.1 s ))
s ( s  1)
matrix will become a 2 by 2 matrix.

Original Exam was conducted in Online mode, using MS team form, where order of appearance of the
questions were shuffled to ensure fairness of the exam. However, the questions remain same as they were in
the MS form.
 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROURKELA
Department of Electrical Engineering
End-Semester Examination, 2022
Session: 2021 - 2022 (Spring)
B.Tech in Electrial Engineering
6th Semester
Subject Name: Advanced Control Systems
Subject Code: EE3302
Number of Pages:2 Full Marks: 50 Duration: 3 Hours

Answer all the Questions

1. Consider the following transfer function

(s + 1)
(s3 + 6s2 + 11s + 6)

Represent the system in the state space so it appears as a controllable system; after that, try
to represent the system using a different state model in which the system looks like completely
state observable. Can you create a model in which the system appears as a completely
uncontrollable and unobservable system? Explain the physical insight of your observation. [8]

2. Comment on the stability of the equilibrium point of the system as shown in the equation
below (where n is the order of the system, and m is any arbitrary positive odd number).

ẋ1 = x2
ẋ2 = x3
..
.
ẋn = −xm m m
1 − x2 . . . − xn

[6]

3. Show that all the eigen values of the matrix A will have negative real parts less than η < 0, iff
for every positive definite M matrix there exists a unique symmetric positive definite P such
that they together satisfy the following equation: AT P + P A + 2ηP = −M [6]

4. Design a feedback controller for the nonlinear system shown in the following equation

ẋ1 = −x1 + x31 + x2

ẋ2 = −x1 + x2 + u

so that the system response closely mimics the transient response of a second order system
having poles at −2 ± 4j. Find out the region of the state space, in which you can claim that
your proposed design will work. [8]

5. If for a given system (Ẋ = AX + BU |A ∈ Rn×n , B ∈ Rn×p , X ∈ Rn and U ∈ Rp ) it can be

observed that all the eigen values of the A are having negative real parts and |A − λi I − B| =
̸ 0
where (λi indicating all possible eigen values of A), then find out an expression of the solution
for the following linear equation/ Is the solution unique?

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AWC + WC AT = −BB T

What is the physical interpretation of this solution? [8]

6. Show that the pair (A, C) is observable iff the pair (A−LC, HC) is observable for any arbitrary
L|L ∈ Rn×p and any nonsingular H|H ∈ Rn×n . [6]

7. Design an integral state feedback control law for the transfer function shown below

1
(s3 + 2s2 + s + 2)

such that the closed loop poles get placed at −2, −2±4j.Do you think that even if we introduce
some arbitrary perturbation in the A matrix our system would still ensure guaranteed tracking
performance for a unit step input? Provide detail explanation. [8]

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