How Do Bode Plots Help in Designing Controllers for Liquid Level Management?

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The discussion revolves around designing a controller for liquid level management in a tank, focusing on achieving specific performance criteria such as steady-state error, settling time, and overshoot. The problem involves analyzing transfer functions derived from design parameters and determining how to calculate various response characteristics.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Conceptual clarification, Mathematical reasoning

Approaches and Questions Raised

  • Participants discuss the calculation of controller parameters and the implications of steady-state error on system performance. There are inquiries about how to determine rise time, peak overshoot, and settling time from the system's response to a step input.

Discussion Status

Some participants have suggested plotting the system's time response to a step input as a method to derive the required performance metrics. There is an ongoing exploration of different plotting techniques, including Bode and root locus plots, although clarity on their application to the problem remains a point of discussion.

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The original poster expresses uncertainty regarding the calculation of specific performance parameters and seeks guidance on the appropriate methods to analyze the system's response.

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Homework Statement


This is the second part my problem. In the first part the Open Loop and Closed loop TF where worked out from design parameters. In later questions a lead or lag commentator is needs to be designed.

Design an appropriate controller to ensure the steady state
error in the liquid level in the tank when it undergoes a step
change is always less than ±0:5%. The settling time and
overshoot of the system response should also be less than
1:5 seconds and 5%, respectively.

I am unsure on how to calculate these parameters.

Homework Equations


The system is a negative unity feedback.

The Attempt at a Solution


Open loop TF
$$G(s)=\frac{0.213}{s(0.66s+3.5)+1}$$
Closed Loop TF
$$G(s)=\frac{0.213}{s(0.66s+3.5)+1.213}$$

Using the Steady Stat Error ##(e_{ss})=0.005##to work out the gain for the controler
$$e(s)=\frac{R(s)}{1+KpG(s)}$$
With A step ##\frac{1}{s}##
$$e(s)=\frac{\frac{1}{s}}{1+KpG(s)}$$
As ##\lim_{ss \rightarrow \infty} e(t)=\lim_{s \rightarrow 0} se(s)=0.005##
##s=0##
Therefor
$$0.005=\frac{s\frac{1}{s}\left[s(0.66s+3.5)+1\right]}{s(0.66s+3.5)+1+0.213Kp}$$
Giving A ##Kp=934.27##
How do I calculate the rise time, peak overshoot and the settling time.

Any tips or help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Tim
 
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The only thing I have ever seen is to plot its time response to a step input and determine those numbers from the graph.
 
Plot it how? Bode, Root locus.
 
topcat123 said:
Plot it how? Bode, Root locus.
No. Plot the response signal versus time. Feed a step function into the transformation and measure how it responds in time. All the requirements you listed in your post #1 can be measured by looking at the plot of response versus time.
 

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