Control engineering education textbooks usually restrict the verification of the systems stability with the Nichols' cartesian and Bode's logarithmic representations to the single case when the number of poles with positive real part is zero and when the curve presents a single phase margin or a single gain margin. This paper presents a general procedure to analyse absolute stability in non-polar diagrams and solves an interesting example, both for educational purposes.
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