Example A.2

MATLAB code for example 2 from Appendix A of the book "Regeltechniek voor het HBO"

Laplace theory for a system with time delay

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Here we look at a system with transfer function: .
Determine the unit step response of this system for
After some calculations we find: , ,
=
The factor means nothing but: "write everywhere instead of t" in the answer (exept in of course), and by table lookup we get:
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So the output equals zero until and the final value is which can be seen too by substituting in .
Using the graphical method according to section 3.4.4 we get immediately from the output :
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It can be checked again, that the numerical value at ervery time t equals the preceding expression.