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Irfan Jamil et al. Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Application
ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 3, Issue 5, Sep-Oct 2013, pp.1000-1006

RESEARCH ARTICLE

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Model Building And Cascade Compensation Of Angle Servo
Control System
Muhammad Usman¹, Dai Zhongjian¹, Irfan Jamil², Rehan Jamil³, Hassan Syed
Mubashir4
¹,4School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhongguancun-5South, Beijing, China
²College of Energy and Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
³School of Physics and Electronic Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming China

ABSTRACT
Control theory is foundation to construct the control system and Automation technologies tools are material
ensure to construct the control system. The control system experiments are essential in the field of development
and research performance by using mathematical model building and cascade compensation. From this point of
the design, Angle servo control system emphasizes with mathematical model building and cascade compensation
both in theoretical foundation and experimental techniques. In this report, we are analyzed the working principle
and function of components in system. To learn how to measure the transfer functions of all components and
prepare how to calculate performance parameters using step response curve. In the end of experiment, we gain
the values of response curves of the angle servo system and also studied calculation reading as well.
Keywords - Control system, Angle servo, Cascade, Mathematical model building, Experiment, Simulation

I.

INTRODUCTION

Over recent years, servo systems are now
being widely applied in industrial sector. [1] The angle
servo system is made of synchro, phase sensitive
demodulation circuit, position regulator, speed
regulator, current regulator, PWM (Pulse Width
Modulation) circuit, power amplifier, DC motor and
DC tachometer generators, system block diagram is
shown.as following fig.1 [2]. Synchro: to invert
mechanical angle difference into voltage signal. Here
it is measurement and comparison components.

Phase sensitive demodulation circuit: to transmit AC
signals associated with the phase into a DC signal.
Position regulator, speed regulator, current regulator:
to improve system performance. PWM circuit: to
modulate the DC Signal modulated into square wave
signal. PA (power amplifier): to amplify the signal
controlled further so that the system has enough power
to drive motor rotation. Implementation motor: to
invert the electrical signal into mechanical motion, and
push the load movement.

Fig. 1: Angle Servo System Block Diagram

II.

WORKING PRINCIPLE OF SYSTEM

Synchro transmitter is regarded as system
input; synchro receiver and the DC torque motor
are connected by coupling [6], so that the position
of DC motor can be detected by rotating synchro
transmitter, the system is added a certain angle, so
that a offset angle Δθ between the transmitter and
receiver of synchro is brought, and offset angle Δθ
≠ 0, the receiver output voltage EscmsinΔθ ≠ 0.
Output AC voltage signal is inverted into a DC
signal by phase-sensitive demodulator; the DC
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signal is used to drive DC motor rotation after
throughout position regulator, speed regulator,
current regulator, PWM circuitry, power amplifier.
DC motor will rotate towards the direction that can
eliminate error until the system error is zero.

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Fig. 2 angle servo system physical graphic

III.
INPUT AND OUTPUT
PROPERTIES AND WORKING
PRINCIPLE OF SYSTEM
COMPONENTS
Control synchro
Control synchro is usually used with a
pair. Principle diagram is shown in fig. 3.

Fig. 3: Control Synchro Principle diagram
The angle between transmitter excitation
winding and D1 phase of the stator is represented
with θ1, and the angle between receiver output
winding and D1' phase of the stator is represented
with θ2, then the induced electric potential
generated by the output windings of receiver is
E  Escm cos(1 2 ) Escm sin  , where Δθ is offset angle,
when Δθ is small:

Escm sin  Escm

, which means

that the relationship between input and output of
synchro is linear, at this time, the transfer function
of synchro can be written as:
G ( s )

E(s)
E
K
 ( s ) scm Z

(1)
Phase sensitive demodulation circuit
In the servo system, the output signal of
synchro is 400Hz AC signal, the implementation
component is DC torque motor, so the AC signal
must be inverted into DC signal by demodulation
circuit,. Demodulation circuit diagram is shown as
followed in fig.4.

Fig. 4: Phase sensitive demodulation circuit
principle
Phase sensitive demodulation circuit is
made of voltage comparator, inverting follower,
multi-channel analog switch and second-order
active low-pass filter. The input signal of
demodulation circuit is output of control synchro
receiver; reference signal is 400Hz sine signal, its
frequency is same to output signal of control
synchro receiver. When reference signal pass by
voltage comparator, it is inverted into pulse signal,
its output is 0 or 1, and this signal is regarded as
selection signal of multi-channel analog switch,
when its output is 0, x0(x+) is selected, when its
output is 1, x1(x-) is selected, where, x+ and xrepresent separately input and output of inverting
follower. When input signal pass by multi-channel
analog switch, it is inverted into direct signal with
high frequency AC components, so phase sensitive
demodulation circuit needs low-pass filter to filter
high frequency AC components. Here second-order
active low-pass filter is used, through above
circuits; the AC signal is inverted into DC signal.
Waves of all signals from different components are
showed as figure 6. In figure 6, when input signal
of demodulation circuit and reference signal has
same phase, which means output voltage of control
synchro is positive, the output DC voltage of lowpass filter is positive; when input signal of
demodulation circuit and reference signal has
contrast phase, which means output voltage of
control synchro is negative, the output DC voltage
of low-pass filter is negative too.
In order to obtain high accuracy of voltage
comparator, inverting follower and multi-channel
analog switch in phase sensitive demodulation
circuit are 1, so transfer function of demodulation
circuit is just decided by second-order active lowpass filter: [3]
G ( s )

Us ( s )
E(s)



2
K s n
2
s 2  2n  n

(2)
PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) circuit
The principle of PWM circuit, through a
series of pulse width modulation, to obtain the
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required equivalent waveform (including the shape
and amplitude) is called for PWM [7].
In PWM circuit, saw tooth wave and DC voltage
are compared in input of voltage comparator, and
then square wave signals with different pulse width
are output. Square wave signals with different
pulse width are showed as Figure 5.

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both sides of DC motor, then speed of DC motor
will be adjusted.
PWM circuit in experiment
In experiment, TL494 PWM chip is used,
FB-side is input of the PWM circuit, S_1, S_2,
S_3, S_4 are outputs of the PWM circuit, and the
signals will be sent to DC motor drive circuit.

UCT

UCT

UCT

FB

FB

FB
t

t
US_1=US_4

US_1=US_4

t

US_2=US_3

t
US_1=US_4

t

t

US_2=US_3

US_2=US_3

t
(a)

t
(b)

(c)

Fig. 7: PWM circuit and output waves in
experiment
Fig. 5: Square wave signals with different pulse
width in PWM circuit
Positive pulse width is the ratio of the total
pulse width is called the duty cycle D. in figure 8,
U represents input DC voltage of PWM circuit, tH,
tL represent positive and negative pulse width, then
the duty cycle D= tH /T, T= tH+tL, output voltage
of PWM circuit Uout=UD.

tH

tL

U

The transfer function of PWM can be
regarded as proportional link:
U
(s)
G ( s )  PWM
 K PWM
Us (s)

(3)

PA（ power amplifier）
The role of power amplifier in circuit is to
amplify the signal amplitude output by forward
class circuit. In experiment, IR2110 chip is used as
power amplifier chip, details of chip can be got by
searching handbook. Pins of chip are shown as
following fig.8.

0V

T  tH  tL
Fig. 6: Square wave signals with different pulse
width in PWM circuit
From above analysis, output voltage of
PWM circuit is proportional to the duty cycle D,
and if this output voltage is amplified and added to

Fig. 8: Pins of IR2110 chip

Fig. 9: Experiment system panel
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Experimental box panel is shown in figure 9,
all input and output interfaces of the system are the
distributed on the panel. Ui, Uv are feedback signals
of current and speed; Z1 Z2, Z'1 Z'2 are synchro
transmitter excitation winding and the receiver output
winding; M1 M2 is armature winding of DC motor;
TG1 TG2 are DC tachometer generator armature
winding , X1 is output of the phase sensitive
demodulator; X2 is output of position regulator; X3
is output of speed regulator; X4 is output of current
regulator; X5 and X6 are the input and output ports of
the PWM circuit; X7 is input of power amplifier (X6
and X7 has been connected); X8 is speed command
output, adjustable DC voltage; In Potentiometer and
Switches, Potentiometer RP1 ~ RP6 are adjustable
resistance of position regulator, speed regulate
The transfer function of PA can be regarded as
proportional link:
The voltage of DC motor armature
G ( s )

IV.

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sensitive demodulator
The input waveform of phase sensitive
demodulator is sine wave; output waveform is similar
to the DC waveform, and the polar of amplitude will
change with the changing of angle difference Δθ.
We have known that the transfer function of
phase sensitive demodulator can be written as
2
K s n
U (s)
G ( s ) s

E ( s ) s 2  2  2
n n

(6)

Step1: to measure the time constant Ts, and
overshoot σp of demodulator
To cut off the connection of current regulator
and PWM circuit and the system is open-loop state; a
certain angle is sent by rotating synchro transmitter,
and then power is turned on; using the oscilloscope to
measure output of phase-sensitive demodulator, the
step response curve will be appeared on the
oscilloscope, The time constant Ts, and overshoot σp
will be got by analyzing the step response curve.

U (s)
K
U PWM ( s ) P

MATHEMATICAL MODEL
BUILDING BY EXPERIMENT
METHOD

To measure the transfer function of synchro
synchro can be written as:
G ( s )

E(s)
E K
 ( s ) scm Z

So we just need to measure value of Kz.
Steps: Firstly, 400Hz, 36V AC power is supplied, the
using an oscilloscope to view Synchro output
waveform that should be sine wave. If at this point the
angle of the receiver is set to be zero, the offset angle
Δθ= the angle of transmitter. Change the angle of
transmitter, the size of the sine wave amplitude will
be changed with the mechanical differential angle Δθ
changing.
Secondly, measure the value of Kz.
Method 1:
An oscilloscope is connected to output
termination of the Synchro, then the oscilloscope will
display as sine wave; to turn the transmitter, so that
sine wave amplitude is adjusted to the maximum, at
this time, record the effective value (RMS) of the
waveform, this RMS shall be Kz.
Method 2:
An oscilloscope is connected to output
termination of the Synchro, then the oscilloscope will
display as sine wave; to turn the transmitter, so that
sine wave will change. When offset angle Δθ is small,
to record separately the amplitudes of input and
output of synchro using oscilloscope, then the ratio of
the amplitudes of input and output is Kz.
A. To measure the transfer function of phase
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Fig. 10: the relationship between system
parameters and the step response curve

(5)

The transfer function of phase-sensitive
demodulator can be got by calculating the relationship
between time merits (Ts,σp)and frequency domains
merits(ξ, ωn).
Step 2: to measure the gain coefficient Ks of
demodulator
The system is open-loop state, and to change
the mechanical differential angle Δθ of synchro, and
then to measure the RMS of synchro output voltage
and DC output voltage value of demodulator with a
multimeter, a set of repeated measurements will get a
set of measurement data, and to draw a curve, the
slope of the curve shall be gain coefficient Ks of
demodulator.
B. To measure the transfer function of PWM
circuit and power amplifier (PA)
PWM and PA can be regarded as proportional links:
U
(s)
G ( s )  PWM
 K PWM
Us (s)

G ( s )

.

(7)

U (s)
K
U PWM ( s ) P

(8)

So in this step, we regard PWM circuit and
power amplifier as one component.
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Step 1: To view the output waveform of
PWM with an oscilloscope, the waveform should be a
square wave. Using Rp7 potentiometer can set to the
initial zero of PWM circuit, that when the input is
zero, the duty cycle D of PWM circuit output
waveform is 50%.
Step 2: To view the input waveform of
power amplifier (PA) (it is also the output of PWM)
with an oscilloscope, the waveform should be a
square wave with ± 24V amplitude.
Step 3: To make the system be open loop
state; to change the input voltage of the PWM circuit
and measure the effective value (RMS) of the input
voltage of the PWM circuit with a multi meter, at the
same time, to measure the average value of output
voltage of power amplifier (square wave) with the
oscilloscope, repeated several times to get a set of
data, draw the curve, the slope of curve shall be
multiplying KPWM *Kp of gains of PWM circuit and
power amplifier.
C. To measure the transfer function of DC
torque motor
DC motor can be regarded as inertial link:
K
 (s)
 m
ua ( s ) Tm s 1

(9)

The step response method can be used to
measure the transfer function of DC motor.
Step1: To make the system be open loop state
and connect X8 and X5, which means that input
voltage with certain amplitude to the PWM circuit,
then DC motor will be driven by PWM and power
amplifier circuit and rotate.
Step 2: To turn on the switch from OFF
position to ON position, which means that add a step
signal to the DC motor. The output of DC motor is
speed; the value cannot be measured with the
oscilloscope, so the value should be achieved by
indirect methods. DC motor and DC tachometer
generator are connected using Couplings coaxial
connector, so the output of the former is latter's input,
so through measuring the output curve of DC
tachometer generator, the step response curve of DC
torque motor can be obtained, Km and Tm, can be got
by analyzing the step response curve.
D. To measure the transfer function of DC
Tachometer Generator
As the speed feedback component, DC
Tachometer Generator’s transfer function is its output
slope; it can be obtained from the nameplate:
2.7V / rad gs1

K
C

E. To measure the transfer function of speed
regulator and current regulator
As experiment modules, the transfer function
of speed regulator and current regulator can be
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calculated according to actual analog circuits.

V.

CASCADE COMPENSATION OF
ANGLE SERVO CONTROL
SYSTEM

According to performance requirements:
Adjust-time: ts p 0.2s , overshoot:  p p 25% , steady-state
error:

ess  00

Cascade compensation is perhaps the most common
control system topology [4].To design a reasonable
cascade compensation link to comprehensive system,
and calculates parameters of compensation link. The
design method can be frequency response method or
root locus method. We analysis the function of
cascade compensation network in angle servo control
system and observe the results as well [5] Kv=10K
Where, K is open-loop gain of inherent characteristics
(no any compensation link) of system.
Control System Testing
According to the system performance to
design correction network, and then the correction
network is accessed to system. To change the
mechanical differential angle and observe if the
desired targets is achieved using an oscilloscope, if
the requirement is not satisfied, we can adjust the
parameters of the calibration network with a Minato
test method. To make the system be closed loop state,
changing transmitter angle and followed by the
receiver rotating. At this time, to observe output
waveform of demodulation with the oscilloscope.
Step response curves testing: turn off the power and to
change the transmitter angle (not too large, usually 50
or so), then connect the power supply. At this point
the output of phase sensitive demodulation is shown:

Figure 12: Step response curves of angle servo system
If the above waveform is divergent
oscillatory, the power must be immediately turned off,
so that to prevent the control circuit burn out and
check the reason. By observing the step response
curve of the system, and adjust parameters according
to the general impact on the system response, repeated
Minato try to change the parameters to meet
performance requirements, and then to determine the
correct link parameters. Before Minato, we learn how
the parameter values of the correction link influence
the system response. By using the oscilloscope, the
system performance is gain with the response curve as
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shown in fig. 12.

VI.

VII.

ANALAYSIS OF EXPERIMENT
DATA OBTAINED OPEN-LOOP
TRANSFER FUNCTION

Strike Kz • Ks initial angle θ = 43 degrees
Kz-Synchro magnification phase sensitive
demodulator Ks-Ts-gain phase sensitive demodulator
time constant. Obtained from the experimental curve,
the value of Ts = 0.01s
1.

Table: 1 the given correction link parameters and
gain values of step response curve of the system
1
2
3
4

Input(Degree)
53-43
63-43
73-43
83-43

output(Degree)
0.38
0.697
0.9766
1.5864

Kz.Ks
1.74
2
1.87
1.87

Mean
1.87

2. Strike Kpwm • Kp initial angle θ = 43 degrees
Kpwm-PWM circuit gain Kp-amplifier gain
Tm motor time constant, observed by the
oscilloscope, the value of Tm = 0.08s
1
2
3
4
5
6

input
-13.556
-10.70
-8.89
8.76
10.50
12.19

output
-55.25
-42.35
-34.09
32.97
40.54
48.79

Km.Kc
4.08
3.96
3.83
3.76
3.86
4.00

Average

3.92

3. Strike Km • Kc initial angle θ = 43 degrees
Input
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Output

-9.0006
-8.120
-6.893
-4.556
4.822
6.859
8.675
9.873

-13.361
-12.087
-10.286
-6.907
6.958
9.958
12.632
14.511

Kpwm.
Kp
1.48
1.49
1.49
1.52
1.44
1.45
1.46
1.47

Average

DESIGN ASPECTS OF SYSTEM
CALIBRATION TO MEET THE
FOLLOWING INDICATORS:

Adjust the time ts <0.2s, overshoot σp
<0.25%, steady-state error is 0, Open-loop transfer
function of the inherent links: G (S) = 4 / S. (0.01S
+1). (0.08S +1), Cut Frequency Wc0 = 3.8, Wc = 38.7
in place, phase margin γ = -3 degrees, Indicators
Conversion: γ = 60.8 degrees Wc = 38.7
So the use of advance correction: as shown
with two devices in series (two ahead of providing a
total phase margin of 64 degrees), Circuit diagram of
a slightly (where R1 = 10K, C = 4μf). Transfer
function is - Rf (R1 + R2) CS +1, R1 R2CS +1.
Corrected final design aspects as: function omitted
here (indicating the function parameter size). Three
experimental debugging process, summarize tandem
correction control law. Experimental process
parameter changes are as follows: An advance
correction two leading correction after correction
correction link is:
R1 = 10K R1 = 10K unchanged
R2 = 2.54K unchanged R2 = 2.54K unchanged
C = 4 - 2μf C = 4μf unchanged (0.0005s +1)
(0.01s +1)
Rf = 60.5K adjust Rf = 39.3k regulation
Summary:
① first correction device according to the design
of the connection, give step input, output has a larger
oscillation, rapid response;
② adjustment Rf, adding step signal becomes
smaller when the Rf oscillation found that smaller, but
the reaction rate becomes small; increases the
oscillation becomes large, the reaction speed. Taken
with the oscilloscope to observe a balance, the result
does not meet system metrics.
③ adjust other parameters: change R2 effect is
not obvious, so remain unchanged, changed C1, the
4μf changed to 2μf, adding step signal and found that
the oscillation was significantly smaller, but fast is not
affected. Therefore, under the condition C1 = 2μf
adjust Rf1, Rf2, meet the conditions of point obtained,
taken with an oscilloscope observation point, the
results in addition to the steady state error is slightly
outside, to meet the targets. That is, for the adjustment
process and summary.

1.48

Km-motor gain coefficient Kc-speed motor speed
voltage ratio, the value of Kc = 2.7v/rad/s plate
reading to Km = 1.45

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Records corrected link parameters and system
step response curves
correction parameter tuning the final part:
Advance correction means an advance correction
device 2
R1 = 10KΩ R1 = 10KΩ
R2 = 2.5KΩ R2 = 2.5KΩ
C = 2μf C = 4μf
After tuning correction link: G = 23.8 (0.025s +1)
(0.05s +1) (0.005s +1) (0.01s +1)
The original system, calibration devices,
after correction system Bode diagram see table
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output curve data record: a step input is дθ ≈ 40
degrees to 50 degrees
Data recorded as follows:
 output stable value: 0.838 overshoot σ =
0.078/0.838 * 100% = 9.3%
 Maximum: 0.838 +0.078 = 0.156
 Adjust the time ts: ts = 0.14s
 the steady-state error: ess> 0

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design correction part of the design and make them
satisfy the following performance indicators: Adjust
the time ts p 0.2s , overshoot  p p 25% , and steady-state
error ess 00 . According to the debugging process, to
conclude cascade compensation control law and to
record parameters of calibration link and the step
response curve of system, analysis and process the
data and curves. Therefore some thinking questions
are also appended which describe the detail role of
calibration link in the system and basic ideas of the
general control system design, and draw a the general
control system block diagram. In the end given
correction link parameters and gain values of step
response curve of the system are observed.

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Fig. 13: Test: 1,2,3,4 Show System performance of
step response curves of angle servo system

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CONCUSLION

In conclusion to analysis experimental data
and obtain open-loop transfer function of system. And
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