Control System
Characteristics
Stability
The stability of control systems is an
important property. Considering any bounded
input signal of a system, and if the output
signal of the system to such a signal is also
bounded, then the system is called bounded-
input-bounded-output stable. If the output
signal does not show this property, the system
is unstable.
(a) Stable and (b)
unstable system response
to a bounded input
signal
Stability conditions
System Response
System Response Definition
The total response of a linear constant
differential equation is the sum of the free
response and the forced response. Another
way of defining the total response is as
follows..
The total response is the sum of the Steady
State response and the Transient Response
The Steady State Response is that part of the
total response which does not approaches
zero as time approaches infinity
The Transient Response is that part of the
total response which approaches zero as time
approaches infinity