Chapter 1 PPT Flashcards
It helps in attaining optimal performance of dynamic systems, improving productivity, relieving the drudgery of many routing repetitive manual operations
Automatic Control
It is a pre-set closed-loop control system that requires no operator (human) action.
Automatic Control System
It uses application of mechanisms to the operation and regulation of processes without continuous direct human intervention
Automatic Control
An automatic control system has two process variables associated with it
Controlled variable and manipulated variable
It is a process variable that is maintained at a specified value or within a specified range
Controlled variable
It is a process variable that is acted on by the control system to maintain the controlled variable at the specified value or within the specified range.
Manipulated variable
In any automatic control system, the four basic functions that occur are:
Measurement, Comparison, Computation, Correction
It is a combination or an arrangement of different physical components which act together as an entire unit to achieve certain objective.
System
The portion of a system which is to be controlled or regulated
Plant
Any operation to be controlled
Process
It is an applied signal or an excitation signal applied to control system from an external energy source in order to produce a specified output
Input
It is the particular signal of interest or the actual response obtained from a control system when input is applied to it
Output
The element of the system itself or external tot the system which controls the plant or the process
Controller
It is a signal which tends to adversely affect the value of the output of a system.
Disturbances
Undesirable and unavoidable effects beyond our control, generated from outside process-environment and from within
If such disturbance is generated within the system itself, it is called as
Internal Disturbance
The disturbance generated outside the system acting as an extra input to the system in addition to its normal input, affecting the output adversely is called as an
External Disturbance