Feedback Control Systems MCQs

Feedback Control Systems MCQs

Answer these 100 Feedback Control Systems MCQs and see how sharp is your knowledge of Feedback Control Systems.
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1: What is Acceleration Error?

A.   The amount of steady state error of the system when stimulated by a unit rectangular input.

B.   The amount of steady state error of the system when stimulated by a unit step input.

C.   The amount of steady state error of the system when stimulated by a unit parabolic input.

D.   The amount of steady state error of the system when stimulated by a unit ramp input.

2: What is Acceleration Error Constant?

A.   The speed at which something happens

B.   A system metric that determines that amount of acceleration error in the system.

C.   A unit of measurement of time

D.   A mathematical constant that is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

3: What is the definition of "Adaptive Gain"?

A.   When control gain is varied depending on system state or condition, such as a disturbance.

B.   A method of reducing the overall gain of a system.

C.   Both of these

D.   None of these

4: What is a system called if a sum of inputs results in a sum of outputs?

A.   None of the above

B.   Multiplicative

C.   Additive

D.   Subtractive

5: What is an analog system?

A.   A system that is continuous in time and magnitude

B.   A system in which information is represented by a series of pulses

C.   A system that uses vacuum tubes and other passive elements to process information

D.   A system that uses discrete steps to represent information

6: What does the acronym "ARMA" stand for?

A.   Association of Retired Magicians and Actors

B.   Autoregressive Moving Average

C.   Average Rating of Movies and Actors

D.   Annual Revenue of Movie Theaters in America

7: What does ATO stand for?

A.   Auxiliary Terminal Operator

B.   Automatic Timed Output

C.   Annual Tax Outcome

D.   Analog Timed Output

8: What does "A/M" stand for?

A.   Air Mass

B.   Auto-Manual

C.   Amplitude Modulation

D.   Alpha Motor neuron

9: What does the "A" in "A/M" stand for?

A.   Average

B.   Auto

C.   Attention

D.   Analog

10: What is the Bilinear Transform?

A.   A variant of the Laplace transform

B.   A variant of the Z-transform

C.   A variant of the Wavelet transform

D.   A variant of the Fourier transform

11: What are Bode Plots used to analyze?

A.   Amount of energy required for the system to function

B.   Sound waves emitted by the system

C.   The frequency characteristics of the system

D.   The efficiency of the system

12: What BIBO stands for?

A.   Bounded Input, Bounded Output

B.   Big In, Big Out

C.   Brought In, Brought Out

D.   Born In, Brought Out

13: What does Cascade refer to?

A.   When the output of a control loop is fed to/from another loop.

B.   A sudden increase

C.   A type of waterfalls

D.   To fall abruptly

14: What is a causal system?

A.   A system that depends on inputs

B.   A system whose output depends on future inputs

C.   A system whose output does not depend on future inputs.

D.   A physical system

15: What is the name of the control methodology that uses the transform domain to analyze and manipulate the Input-Output characteristics of a system?

A.   Non-Classical controls

B.   Áedán mac Gabráin

C.   Classical Controls

D.   Conventional Controls

16: What is the definition of a closed loop system?

A.   A system with no feedback

B.   A controlled system using feedback or feedforward

C.   A system that is not open to outside input

D.   A system that is open to outside input

17: What does BIBO mean in the context of conditional stability?

A.   Bilateral-input, bounded-output

B.   Bounded-input, bounded-output

C.   Bounded-input, bilateral-output

18: What does "BIBO stable" mean in the context of conditional stability?

A.   BIBO Unstable

B.   Bounded-input Unbounded-output stable

C.   Unbounded-input bounded-output stable

D.   Bounded-input bounded-output stable

19: What is a continuous-time system?

A.   A system or signal that is defined at all points t.

B.   A system or signal that is defined at discrete points in time

C.   A system that is not time-varying

D.   A system or signal that is not defined at all points

20: What is the lower bound for the Control Rate?

A.   Nyquist rate

B.   Encoding

C.   Sample rate

D.   Clock jitter

21: What is Convolution?

A.   A simple operation on functions defined by the integral of the two functions multiplied together.

B.   A complex operation on functions defined by the integral of the two functions multiplied together, and time-shifted.

C.   A complex operation on functions defined by the integral of the two functions added together.

D.   A complex operation on functions defined by the integral of the two functions divided by each other.

22: What is the integral of the two functions multiplied together called?

A.   Convolution

B.   Division

C.   Addition

D.   Multiplication

23: What is the integral form of the convolution operation?

A.   Polynomial integral

B.   Convolution integral

C.   Natural logarithm integral

D.   Logarithmic integral

24: What is the convolution integral?

A.   Addition of two or more signal

B.   Calculation of time difference

C.   The integral form of the convolution operation.

D.   Method to find Laplace transform

25: What does the damping ratio determine?

A.   The damping properties of a system.

B.   The distance between two objects.

C.   The mass of an object.

D.   The acceleration of an object.

26: What is "Deadtime"?

A.   A situation where all machines are shut down

B.   A situation where communication has broken down

C.   The time shift between the output change and the related effect

D.   A situation where all processes have ceased

A.   Latency

B.   Runtime

C.   Deadtime

D.   Overtime

28: What is a digital system?

A.   A system that is continuous-time and quantized.

B.   A system that is either discrete-time or quantized.

C.   A system that is both discrete-time, and quantized.

D.   A system that is discrete-time and analog.

29: What is required to bring the process variable (PV) to setpoint (SP)?

A.   Indirect action target output increase

B.   Reversible action target output increase

C.   Direct action target output increase

D.   No action target output increase

30: What is a discrete time system?

A.   A system or signal that is only defined at some points in time.

B.   A system or signal that is defined at all points in time.

C.   A system or signal that is only defined at specific points in time.

D.   A system or signal that is not defined at any points in time.

31: What does it mean if a system has an infinite number of states?

A.   The system is in an infinite number of states.

B.   The system is in a finite number of states.

C.   The system is not distributed.

D.   The system is distributed.

32: What is a necessary condition for a system to be distributed?

A.   The system has an infinite number of state variables.

B.   The system has a finite number of state variables.

C.   The system has a finite number of states.

D.   The system has an infinite number of states.

33: What is a system called if it doesn't have memory?

A.   Static

B.   Continuous

C.   Dynamic

D.   Linear

34: A system is called dynamic if _______

A.   It has memory

B.   It doesn't have memory

C.   It is constantly changing

D.   It is complex

35: What are eigenvalues?

A.   The determinant of the matrix

B.   Solutions to the characteristic equation of a matrix

C.   Functions of time that are solutions to the characteristic equation of a matrix

D.   The matrix itself

36: What are the nullspace vectors of the characteristic equation for particular eigenvalues called?

A.   Eigenvalues

B.   Inverse vectors

C.   Characteristic vectors

D.   Eigenvectors

37: What is Euler's Formula?

A.   An equation that relates complex exponentials to complex sinusoids.

B.   A method of solving differential equations

C.   A consequence of the Pythagorean theorem

D.   A proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus

38: What is the Exponential Weighted Average?

A.   Uses filters to clean data.

B.   Weights data equally.

C.   Calculates the average of a data set.

D.   Apportions fractional weight to new and existing data to form a working average.

39: What is the output of the system passed through?

A.   Processing unit H

B.   Plant

C.   Input

D.   Output

40: What is the name of the process when apriori knowledge is used to forecast at least part of the control response?

A.   Function approximation

B.   Data preprocessing

C.   Feedback

D.   Feedforward

41: What is the goal of filtering?

A.   To reject undesirable components like noise

B.   To make the signal more periodic

C.   To boost the signal

D.   To sculpt the signal into an aesthetically pleasing shape

42: What is signal filtering?

A.   The use of signal smoothing techniques to reject undesirable components like noise.

B.   The use of signal amplification techniques to reject undesirable components like noise.

C.   The use of signal averaging techniques to reject undesirable components like noise.

D.   The use of signal attenuation techniques to reject undesirable components like noise.

43: What does the final value theorem allow one to determine?

A.   The steady-state value of a system

B.   The input value of a system

C.   The transient value of a system

D.   The transfer function of a system

44: What is the Fourier Transform of the impulse response?

A.   Triangle Wave

B.   Square Wave

C.   Frequency Response

D.   Sine Wave

45: What is the Frequency Response?

A.   The response of a system to shocks of different intensities.

B.   The response of a system to different levels of input.

C.   The response of a system to sinusoids of different frequencies.

D.   The response of a system to different angles of incidence.

46: What is the Fourier Transform?

A.   A mathematical function that transforms signals from the time domain to the frequency domain.

B.   A measure of the amount of signal power distributed over frequency.

C.   An integral transform that analyzes the frequency characteristics of a system.

D.   The ratio of the amplitude of two waveforms.

A.   Political science

B.   Sociology

C.   Physics

D.   Control engineering

48: What is Game Theory?

A.   A branch of study that is related to computer science and programming

B.   A branch of study that is related to control engineering, and especially optimal control.

C.   A branch of study that is related to mathematics and physics

D.   A branch of study that is related to economics and business

49: What is gain?

A.   The rate of change of a signal

B.   A unit of measure for loudness

C.   A constant multiplier in a system that is typically implemented as an amplifier or attenuator.

D.   A control system that adjusts itself automatically

50: What did Hendrik Wade Bode do?

A.   Chemist

B.   YouTuber

C.   Electrical Engineer

D.   Plumber