Solution 10.8.7.9
The characteristic equation is
1+GH(s)=0:
If we let
GH(s)=
(s)
(s)
;;
then we can write
1+
(s)
(s)
=0;;
or
(s)+(s)
(s)
=0:
Clearly,another waytowrite the characteristic equation is
(s)+(s)=0:
We next divide both sides of
1+GH(s)=0
by GH(s)toobtain
1
GH(s)
+1=0:
We then rewrite this last expression using
GH(s)=
(s)
(s)
;;
to obtain
1
GH(s)
+1 =
1
(s)
(s)
+1
=
()
(s)
+1
=
(s)+(s)
(s)
:
Thus, we see that, as must be the case,
1+GH(s)=0;;
1
Im(s)
Re(s)
III
I*
Figure 1: Root locus
and
GH(s)
;1
+1=0
are simply dierentways of writing the characteristic equation. If we use
GH(s)
;1
+1=0;;
Then wesimply reverse the roles of the poles and zeros of GH(s), but ev-
erything else remains the same.
Now consider
GH(s)=
K(s+2)
s
2
(s+1)(s+10)
Then
GH(s)
;1
=
s
2
(s+2)(+3)
K(s+1)
Wenow draw the Nyquist plot for the contour shown in Figure 1 Note that
the phase will be 180
as weapproach s =0,sincewe get an angle of 90
from each zero at the origin.
The Bode phase and magnitude plots are shown in Figure 2. Note that
the phase starts at 180
goes backto160
,grows again to 180
and then
nally goes to 270
as the magnitude of GH(j!)becomes innitely large.
Thus, the Nyquist plot for part I of the
contour is shown in Figure 3
As weevaluate GH
;1
along the semicircle of ininite radius, the mag-
nitude of GH
;1
remains innite, but the angle rotates through 500
in the
clockwise direction. This is because wehavethree zeros contributing 180
2
10
-1
10
0
10
1
10
2
10
3
-40
-20
0
20
40
60
80
10
-1
10
0
10
1
10
2
10
3
160
180
200
220
240
260
280
Figure 2: Bode magnitude and phase plots
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Re(s)
Im(s)
Figure 3: B GH(I)
eachintheclockwise direction and a pole contributing ;180
in the clock-
wise direction. The evaluation of GH
;1
along I
is just the mirror image of
GH(I). The completed Nquist plot is shown in Figure 4.
Wenowcan complete the analysis. One thing to remember. The gain
K is in the denominator so that as we increase K the Nyquist plot shrinks
and as wedecrease the gain the Nyquist plot expands. The value of gain K
that makes GH
;1
=1can be determined from the Bode plots. The phase
starts at 180
,goesto160
then to 180
again before going to 270
. The
phase is 180
for ! =1,and the magnitude for K = 100 isj1 Thus the only
place where the Nyquist plot touches the real axis is for s =0. Itiseasy
enough to see that for s =0
jGH(s)
;1
(j1)j =
jsj
2
js+2jjs+3j
Kjs+1j
s=j1
= ;25 dB = 0:0562:
Dividing both sides by0.0562 weobtain
jsj
2
js+2jjs+3j
5:62js+1j
s=j1
=1:
4
Re(s)
Im(s)
_
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Figure 4: Completed Nyquist plot
Thus if If we decrease the gain byafactor of
1
0:0562
=17:78
the point `a' will pass through the point(;1;;0) in the GH
;1
plane. Thus,
fore 0 <K<5:62: the point(;1;;0) will be region I. For 5:62K<1, the
point(;1;;0) will be region II.
Since GH(s)
;1
has no poles inside the righthalf plane, in region I the
Nyquist equation is
Z = N + P
= (;1+1)+0
= 0:
N =0becausewehaveonecounterclockwise and one counterclockwise
encirclement. Thus there are no closed loop poled in the righthalfplane.
In region II the Nyquist equation is
Z = N +P
= 2+0
= 0;;
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-12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4
-10
-8
-6
-4
-2
0
2
4
6
8
10
Real Axis
Imag Axis
Figure 5: Root locus
and there are twoclosedlooppoles in the righthalf plane. The circlements
are positivebecause they are clockwise and wewentaround the righthalf
plane in the s plane in the clockwise direction.
Thus, the the system is stable for K<5:62. This can, of course, be seen
from the root locus shown in Figure 5.
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