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GATE Instrumentation and Process Control: Cascade and feedforward control – Previous Year Questions

5 GATE previous year questions on Cascade and feedforward control (Instrumentation and Process Control, Chemical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 CH Q23 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The appropriate feedforward compensator, G ff, in the shown block diagram is
  2. GATE 2023 CH Q44 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A cascade control strategy is shown in the figure below. The transfer function between the output (y) and the secondary disturbance (d 2) is defined…
  3. GATE 2024 CH Q22 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider the block diagram in the figure with control input u, disturbance d and output y. For the feedforward controller, the ordered pair (K, /) is
  4. GATE 2024 CH Q48 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – For the block diagram shown in the figure, the correct expression for the transfer function G d = y 1(s)d(s) is
  5. GATE 2025 CH Q62 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The block diagram of a series cascade control system (with time in minutes) is shown in the figure. For I = 8 min and K cs = 1, the maximum value of K…