What is the difference between open-loop control and closed-loop control systems?

What will be an ideal response?


Open-loop control sends out signals and assumes they are followed. Closed-loop control gets some form of feedback that verifies the commanded action occurred.

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State whether actual (A) or estimated (E) costs are more likely to be used to carry out the following activities: calculate taxes, make bids, pay bonuses, determine profit or loss, predict sales, set prices, evaluate proposals, distribute resources, plan pro­duction, and set goals.

What will be an ideal response?

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The cost of an electrode position control system in an electric arc furnace was $16,000 when the ap­plicable equipment cost index had a value of 1192. If the current index value is 1364 and the exponent in the cost-capacity equation has a value of 0.65, the estimated cost now of a similar system twice as large is closest to: (choose one)

(a) $17,465 (b) $21,545 (c) $28,730 (d) $36,130

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Technician A says that warm up cycles are used to erase DTCs and freeze frame data. Technician B says that OBD II requires the diagnostic system to monitor all emission-related components and systems. Which technician is correct?

A) Technician A only B) Technician B only C) Both technicians D) Neither technician

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In the telephone business, the word conductor refers to:

A) a copper wire B) water C) a laser beam D) air E) any of the above

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