What does step response mean?
How a system's output changes over time after its input jumps suddenly from one value to another, such as full power from standing still. Its final value and time constant are the first numbers to measure on anything that moves.
In a lesson
A model of a machine is worth nothing until someone has measured the machine. This lesson is the measurement: a step response, the standard first experiment on anything that moves.
Learn it
- Taught in U1.6 Measuring your robot The robot as a system, University