System Stability

ECE 3303: Signals and Systems

Fall 2022
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BIBO Stability
• Bounded Input - Bounded Output Stability.
• Depends on external inputs – external system stability.
• If the input is ‘bounded’ (finite), the output should also be
‘bounded’.

Bounded Input Bounded Output

Necessary and
Necessary Condition Sufficient Condition

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 Asymptotic Stability
• Internal system stability and depends on ‘characteristic roots’

All roots on Left plane All roots on Right plane

STABLE UNSTABLE
Exponentially decreasing Exponentially increasing
BIBO UNSTABLE
BIBO STABLE

All non-repeating roots Repeated roots on

on Imaginary axis Imaginary axis
Marginally STABLE UNSTABLE
BIBO UNSTABLE BIBO UNSTABLE

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Asymptotic Stability

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Example

Asymptotic BIBO
STABLE STABLE
UNSTABLE UNSTABLE
Marginable STABLE UNSTABLE
UNSTABLE UNSTABLE

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 STABLE
5

MATLAB
4

-1

-2

-3

-4

-5
-4 -2 0 2 4

UNSTABLE Marginally Stable UNSTABLE

5 5 5

4 4 4

3 3 3

2 2 2

1 1 1

0 0 0

-1 -1 -1

-2 -2 -2

-3 -3 -3

-4 -4 -4

-5 -5 -5
-4 -2 0 2 4 -4 -2 0 2 4 -4 -2 0 2 4

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