July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
728 pages
18h 38m
English
J.M. McNamee and V.Y. Pan
In considering the stability of mechanical systems we are led to the characteristic equation
. Continuous-time systems are stable if all the roots of this equation are in the left half-plane (Hurwitz stability), while discrete-time systems require all
(Schur stability). Hurwitz stability has been treated by the Cauchy index and Sturm sequences, leading to various determinantal criteria and Routh’s array, and several other methods. We also have to consider the question of robust ...
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