INTRODUCTION:

This manual supports the practical sessions of the course “Control Systems” for under-graduate engineering degrees. The manual comprises of 16 experiments which cover software as well as hardware aspects of control systems. The hardware experiments consists of working with platforms like speed and position control of servo motor by using PID controller, Magnetic levitation system, Inverted Pendulums and Vertical Take-Off and Landing. The software based experiments mainly use MATLAB/Simulink. This new edition offers significant improvements from previous manual as it included 2 Open-Ended labs covering a comprehensive portion of the lab. In an attempt to make the students capable of correlating theoretical concepts with physical systems, new experiments have been included in this edition. While writing this manual, the two main focuses were systematic explanation and problem solving methodology.

CONTENTS OF LAB

Lab

                                                          Contents of Lab

1

MATLAB for Control Systems

2

Transfer Functions in Matlab

3

Simulink for Control Systems

4

Differential Equation Modeling and Analysis of DC Motor Speed

5

Magnetic Levitation system model and Analysis in SIMULINK

6

Ball and Beam Modeling And Analysis

7

Stability of a System           

8

To Measure Time-Domain Performance of The System

9

Reduction of Multiple Sub-Systems

10

Steady State Error

11

Root Locus

12

Frequency Response Method

13

PID controller design for DC Motor Speed

14

PID controller design of Magnetic Levitation System

15

PID controller design of Ball and Beam

Course Material