Transients in marginally stable system

1. What is a marginally stable system?
2. What is the consequence of marginally stable systems?
3. Is marginally stable considered stable?
4. How do you tell if a system is stable marginally stable or unstable?

What is a marginally stable system?

A marginally stable system is one that, if given an impulse of finite magnitude as input, will not "blow up" and give an unbounded output, but neither will the output return to zero. A bounded offset or oscillations in the output will persist indefinitely, and so there will in general be no final steady-state output.

What is the consequence of marginally stable systems?

Even if we have a bounded input as n tends to inf, we will have an bounded output. Hence, the system resolves to be a stable one. What is the consequence of marginally stable systems? The system will be a purely oscillatory system with no damping involved.

Is marginally stable considered stable?

Marginal Stability

A system with poles in the open left-half plane (OLHP) is stable. If the system transfer function has simple poles that are located on the imaginary axis, it is termed as marginally stable. The impulse response of such systems does not go to zero as t→∞, but stays bounded in the steady-state.

How do you tell if a system is stable marginally stable or unstable?

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.