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What is Control System Engineering?
The Idea of this Blog content is to explain the Control systems Engineering along with its real time applications so that everone can understand what is all about controls!
Control System Engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with designing, analyzing, and managing systems to ensure they behave in a desired manner. This field is crucial in various industries, where precise control of systems, processes, and machinery is essential for efficiency, safety, and reliability.
In a Nutshell:
Open-Loop Control System: Operates without feedback. The system doesn’t adjust based on the output.
Example: A washing machine timer runs for a set period, regardless of whether the clothes are clean.
Closed-Loop Control System (Feedback Control): Adjusts the system’s operation based on feedback from the output.
Example: A thermostat that maintains a set temperature by adjusting the heating or cooling based on the actual room temperature.
Control systems Basics:
Control system Engineering must come across the following phases from Problem Identification to Design validation, Implementation and its maintenance.
- Identification – To measure the variables and convert data for analysis.
- Representation – To describe a system by an analytical form or mathematical model
- Solution – To determine the above system model response.
- Stability – General qualitative analysis of the system
- Design – Modification of an existing system or develop a new one
- Optimization – From a variety of design to choose the best.
Classification:
- Open – Loop Control system
It is a control system where its control action only depends on input signal and does not depend on its output response as shown in Fig.1.1.
Examples: Traffic signal, washing machine, bread toaster, etc.
Advantages:
· Simple design and easy to construct
· Economical
· Easy for maintenance
· Highly stable operation Dis-advantages:
· Not accurate and reliable when input or system parameters are variable in nature
· Recalibration of the parameters are required time to time
Dis-advantages:
· Not accurate and reliable when input or system parameters are variable in nature
· Recalibration of the parameters are required time to time
- Closed Loop Control system
It is a control system where its control action depends on both its input signal and output response as shown in Fig.1.2.
Examples: automatic electric iron, missile launcher, speed control of DC motor, etc.
Advantages:
· More accurate operation than that of open-loop control system
· Can operate efficiently when input or system parameters are variable in nature
· Less nonlinearity effect of these systems on output response
· High bandwidth of operation
· There is facility of automation
· Time to time recalibration of the parameters are not required
Dis-advantages:
· Complex design and difficult to construct
- Expensive than that of open-loop control system ·
- Complicate for maintenance ·
- Less stable operation than that of open-loop control system
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