Why do we need to know beforehand the number of open-loop unstable poles in order to tell stability from the Nyquist plot?
Chapter 6
Q. 6.RQ.13
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The Nyquist plot encirclements counts the difference in the number of zeros and the number of poles in the RHP of 1 + KDG. In order to know the number of zeros of this function (which are closed-loop poles and thus unstable poles of the closed loop), we must know the number of unstable open-loop poles for the plot.