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Conditional and Marginal Stability

This document discusses conditional and marginal stability in control systems. Conditional stability means a system is stable for certain component values but not guaranteed for all values. Marginal stability means a system produces constant amplitude, constant frequency oscillations for bounded inputs rather than decaying outputs. A system is marginally stable if any two poles are on the imaginary axis of the open or closed loop transfer function.

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Conditional and Marginal Stability

This document discusses conditional and marginal stability in control systems. Conditional stability means a system is stable for certain component values but not guaranteed for all values. Marginal stability means a system produces constant amplitude, constant frequency oscillations for bounded inputs rather than decaying outputs. A system is marginally stable if any two poles are on the imaginary axis of the open or closed loop transfer function.

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CONDITIONAL AND MARGINAL

STABILITY
WHAT IS STABILITY?
 A system is said to be stable, if its output is under control. Otherwise, it is said to be unstable. A stable system produces a
bounded output for a given bounded input.
 The following figure shows the response of a stable system.

 This is the response of first order control system for unit step input. This response has the values between 0 and 1. So, it
is bounded output. We know that the unit step signal has the value of one for all positive values of t including zero. So, it
is bounded input. Therefore, the first order control system is stable since both the input and the output are bounded.
TYPES OF STABILITY
 We can classify the systems based on stability as follows.

1) Absolutely stable system


2) Asymptotic stable system
2) Conditionally stable system
3) Marginally stable system
 This presentation explains conditional and marginal stability.
CONDITIONAL STABILITY

 If the system is stable for a certain range of system component values, then it is known as conditionally stable
system.
 A conditional stability has no guarantee that a system will be all time stable. Two case arises here is:

1) Necessary but not sufficient conditions. Example- Routh- Hurwitz Criteria.


2) Sufficient but not necessary conditions. Example- if a system is BIBO stable for a particular gain but unstable for
any other gain value.
MARGINAL STABILITY
 If the system is stable by producing an output signal with constant amplitude and constant frequency of oscillations for
bounded input, then it is known as marginally stable system. The open loop control system is marginally stable if any
two poles of the open loop transfer function is present on the imaginary axis. Similarly, the closed loop control system
is marginally stable if any two poles of the closed loop transfer function is present on the imaginary axis.
 An LTI system is marginally stable if it is not asymptotically stable, but there nevertheless exist numbers A, B < ∞
such that :

 Examples of marginal stability :

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