EE443 Final Exam Review

Date/Time/Room: Monday, December 10, 2001 at 1:30pm in Speare 113

Items Allowed into Exam: One 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper with writing on both sides, writing utensils and calculator

Potential Topics:

1. Modeling

• mechanical and electrical systems

• differential equations

• transfer functions

• state and output equations

• conversion between models

• poles, zeros, eigenvalues

• block diagram reduction

• DC motor with gearing and loads

• linearization

2. Sensitivity

• compute and interpret

3. Step Response

• metrics

• desired dominant pole pair location

• effects of extra zeros and poles on second order response

4. Steady-State Error

• determine for system with given input

5. Stability

• definitions

• Routh-Hurwitz method

6. Root Locus

• sketch and label important features

• use to choose controller gains for given specifications

7. State Variable Feedback Control

• controllability

• state feedback control for stabilization of states to origin

• state feedback control for proportional stabilization of one state to fixed value

• internal model design for output control