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Open-Loop and Closed-Loop System

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn about:

  • The difference between open-loop and closed-loop systems
  • How feedback signals are compared with input signals to give the error signal
  • To have an appreciation of transients and the concept of damping
  • To explain the setting time for a signal
  • To understand open-loop gain and closed-loop gain and the relations between the two
  • To understand the importance of integration
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Feedback control system

44.1  INTRODUCTION

All the elements necessary to accomplish the control objective are described by the term control system. Control means methods to force parameters ...

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