Block reduction how to move summer

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Watershadow

Joined Jul 6, 2011
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I so far reduced the blocks to the current sketch. I am not sure what to do with the feedback loop of A and C. How do you move the two summing points A to B. Or is there another easier way to reduce the block in its current form?
 

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Georacer

Joined Nov 25, 2009
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Think about it: You have three summing points in a row. Isn't addition associative? You can substitute all of these summing points with one.
I also suggest you move the origin of the H1G2 feedback loop from C to the output, making it (H1G2)/(G2G3+G4).
That way you 'll end up with three parallel feedback loops, waiting for you to simplify them.

Is that clear?
 

Georacer

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It means that a+b+c=(a+b)+c=a+(b+c).

In other words you can make a single summing point out of the three smaller ones just by summing all of the components.
 

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Watershadow

Joined Jul 6, 2011
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Georacer

I dont know how to add summing points. But like you said if its a+b+c then I can move the order around like a+c+b, that way I can reduce the feedback loops slowly 1 by 1.
 

Georacer

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A summing point doesn't have to add only two signals. You can lead all three feedback loops to a single summing point.

That said, you will end up with a system whit G1 in series with G2G3+G4 in the forward branch, and three parallel branches for feedback with TFs H1G2, H2/G1 and 1, all of them giving negative feedback.

Isn't that the same as F=G1*(G2G3+G4), G=(H1G2/(G2G3+G4)+H2/G1+1) and the overall TF being H=F/(1+FG)?
 
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