What This Document Is
This document is a lab report (Lab 8) completed by students Carl Freycinet and Melik Distant for the Principles Of Feedback Control Systems course (CET 4864) at New York City College of Technology. It was submitted to Professor Luisalberto Aponte on October 27, 2017. The lab focuses on analyzing closed-loop transfer functions and their responses to different input signals.
Why This Document Matters
This lab report is intended for the instructor, Professor Aponte, as a demonstration of student understanding of control systems concepts. It serves as an assessment of the students’ ability to apply theoretical knowledge to practical problems involving system analysis and response characteristics. Other students in the course may review it as an example of a completed assignment.
Common Limitations or Challenges
This is a student submission and may contain errors or incomplete analysis. It represents a specific implementation and set of results, and should not be considered a comprehensive guide to the topic. It does not provide detailed explanations of the underlying control systems theory.
What This Document Provides
The report includes: a statement of the lab’s objective, a description of the procedure followed, MATLAB code used for calculations and plotting, results including plots of impulse, step, and ramp responses for two different system configurations, and a concluding section. The document focuses on determining closed-loop transfer functions and analyzing system behavior with varying parameters (K values). It does *not* include a detailed theoretical background or a comprehensive discussion of control systems principles. This preview does not include the full MATLAB code or the detailed analysis within the "Results" and "Conclusion" sections.