Basic Elements of Control System – Open loop and Closed loop systems – Transfer function – Modelling of Electric and Mechanical Systems – Block diagram reduction Techniques - Signal flow graph

Time Response: Time Domain Specifications – Impulse and Step Response analysis of First order and Second order systems - Steady state errors – P, PI, PD and PID Compensation

Frequency Domain Specifications – Bode Plot, Polar Plot – Introduction to Lead, Lag and Lead-Lag Compensators

Concept of stability-Bounded - Input Bounded - Output stability - Routh-Hurwitz Criterion – Root Locus Technique – Nyquist Stability Criterion

State space representation of Continuous Time systems – State equations – Transfer function from State Variable Representation – Controllability and Observability