Stability Analysis Procedure for Relay Systems Implemented on Minicomputer with Application to Nuclear Reactor Control

This paper presents a procedure for stability analysis by the Tsypkin Locus method of an unforced control system with relay-type actuator. The procedure was written with special attention given to the minimization of the computation time; thus it may be efficiently executed on a minicomputer. The procedure and a flow chart are presented and the case of a nuclear reactor control is given as an example.