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Regulation and Control: by Tewedage Sileshi

The document discusses Nichol's chart, which is a plot of logarithmic magnitude in decibels versus phase angle over a frequency range. It can be constructed from a Bode plot and used to determine the relative stability of a closed-loop system. Examples are given of drawing the Nichol's chart for simple transfer functions and using it to find the gain and phase margins. The goal is then stated to cover the Nyquist plot in subsequent lectures.

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Regulation and Control: by Tewedage Sileshi

The document discusses Nichol's chart, which is a plot of logarithmic magnitude in decibels versus phase angle over a frequency range. It can be constructed from a Bode plot and used to determine the relative stability of a closed-loop system. Examples are given of drawing the Nichol's chart for simple transfer functions and using it to find the gain and phase margins. The goal is then stated to cover the Nyquist plot in subsequent lectures.

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REGULATION AND CONTROL

NICHOLS CHART

By Tewedage Sileshi
Nichol’s Chart (Log-magnitude vs Phase Plot)
 Another approach to graphically portraying the frequency-response characteristics is to use the log-

magnitude-versus-phase plot.

 Which is a plot of the logarithmic magnitude in decibels versus the phase angle for a frequency range of

interest.

 In the manual approach the log-magnitude-versus-phase plot can easily be constructed by reading

values of the log magnitude and phase angle from the Bode diagram.

 Advantages of the log-magnitude-versus-phase plot are that the relative stability of the closed-loop

system can be determined quickly and that compensation can be worked out easily.
Nichol’s Chart of simple transfer functions
1
G ( j ) 
j
1
G( j )    90 

ω db φ
0 ∞ -90o
0.5 6 -90o
1 0 -90o
2 -6 -90o
∞ -∞ -90o
Cont’d

1
G ( j ) 
j T  1

1 1
G ( j )    tan (T )
T 2 2  1
Cont’d

1
G ( j ) 
j  jT  1
Relative Stability
Example #1
 Draw the Nichol’s Chart of following open loop transfer function and obtain the Gain
Margin and Phase Margin.
1
G( s ) 
s( s  1)( s  3)
Solution
1
G ( j ) 
j ( j  1)( j  3)
1
G ( j ) 
 4 2  j( 3  3 )
1  4 2  j( 3  3 )
G ( j )  2 3

 4  j(  3 )  4 2  j( 3  3 )
Cont’d

1  4 2  j( 3  3 )
G ( j )  
 4 2  j( 3  3 )  4 2  j( 3  3 )

 4 2  j( 3  3 )
G ( j ) 
 16 4  ( 3  3 ) 2

 4 2 ( 3  3 )
G ( j )  4 3 2
 j
 16  (  3 )  16 4  ( 3  3 ) 2
Cont’d
4 ( 2  3)
G ( j )  2 2 2
 j
16  (  3) 16 3   ( 2  3) 2
ω G ( j )
db
G( j )

0.01 30 -90o
0.1 10.3 -97.5o
0.5 -4.4 -125o
1 -14 -153o
2 -22 -180o
10 -26 -189o
Cont’d
ω G ( j ) G( j )
db

0.01 30 -90o

0.1 10.3 -97.5o

0.5 -4.4 -125o

1 -14 -153o

2 -22 -180o

10 -26 -189o
Nichols Chart
40

20 Phase Margin=700

0 Gain Margin=22 db Gain Cross


over point
-20 Phase Cross
Open-Loop Gain (dB)

over point
-40

-60

-80

-100

-120

-140
-270 -225 -180 -135 -90
Open-Loop Phase (deg)
Goal for next lectures

 NY Quist plot

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