Text: PART 1 (SIMULINK)
First-order systems
Procedure:
Open Simulink, which allows graphical modeling or simulation.
Scope the output in sinks, and the transfer function in continuous. Copy relevant icons on the worksheet to construct Fig. 1 (see below):
Scope
Step
Transfer Fcn
Scope'
Fig. 1
> Click on the transfer function block and modify it according to the more general form:
A
Bs + C
> Change A, B, and C (one parameter at a time) with your own values and plot the responses. Find a gain constant (K), a time constant (T), settling time (ts), and a pole location in the "s-plane".
Comment on those three cases.
> Answer the following questions: What relationship between A, B, and C determines the gain constant? What relationship between A, B, and C determines the time constant?