Why do I get the wrong output? - matlab

In this Scilab code, I am converting a state space system to a transfer function and the output should be G(s)= (s+3)/(s^3+6s^2+11s+6) but I got this output
G(s)=(1 +8.882D-16s)/(2 +3s +s² ) . I know there is a common factor (s+3) between a numerator and a denominator that had been cancelled but if I converted the same transfer function to a state space system again, I will get a different system with different matrices dimensions and values than the original system which does not happen in Matlab. Is there any way to avoid this problem and remove this term (8.882D-16s) from the transfer function?
clear
A=[-1 0 1; 1 -2 0;0 0 -3];
B=[0;0;1];
C=[1 1 0];
D=[0];
sys=syslin('c', A, B, C, D); // c....continuous time domain system
//linear system
G=ss2tf(sys)
disp(G)
ss=tf2ss(G)
[A,B,C,D]=abcd(ss) ```

Matlab does some implicit cleaning. You can do this explicitely in Scilab:
--> G=clean(ss2tf(sys))
G =
1
---------
2 +3s +s²

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Continuous time system discretization, and matrix exponential, Output truncated

There is a continuous-time system shown below:
The matlab codes are:
t=0.01;
syms s;
a2=[0 0 -285.7143;0 -0.4533 9.0662;5.2650 -5.2131 -42.5958];
b2=[571.4286;0;82.5714];
c2=[1 0 0];
A2=expm(a2*t);
B2=(int(expm(a2*s),0,t)*b1);
However, when I calculate B1, the computer displays 'output truncated'.
please help me.
thanks a lot.
I don't think it's necessary to use symbolic math for this integral of a matrix-valued function. Instead, you can use integral with the 'ArrayValued' option:
t = 0.01;
a2 = [0 0 -285.7143;
0 -0.4533 9.0662;
5.2650 -5.2131 -42.5958];
integral(#(s)expm(a2*s),0,t,'ArrayValued',true)
This is much faster and returns a result very similar to syms s; double(int(expm(a2*s),s,0,t)) (ignore the minuscule imaginary parts due to numerical error). See also this question.

State space system gives different bode plot then transfer function matrix

I have a state space system with matrices A,B,C and D.
I can either create a state space system, sys1 = ss(A,B,C,D), of it or compute the transfer function matrix, sys2 = C*inv(z*I - A)*B + D
However when I draw the bode plot of both systems, they are different while they should be the same.
What is going wrong here? Does anyone have a clue? I know btw that the bodeplot generated by sys1 is correct.
The system can be downloaded here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20782274/system.mat
clear all;
close all;
clc;
Ts = 0.01;
z = tf('z',Ts);
% Discrete system
A = [0 1 0; 0 0 1; 0.41 -1.21 1.8];
B = [0; 0; 0.01];
C = [7 -73 170];
D = 1;
% Set as state space
sys1 = ss(A,B,C,D,Ts);
% Compute transfer function
sys2 = C*inv(z*eye(3) - A)*B + D;
% Compute the actual transfer function
[num,den] = ss2tf(A,B,C,D);
sys3 = tf(num,den,Ts);
% Show bode
bode(sys1,'b',sys2,'r--',sys3,'g--');
Edit: I made a small mistake, the transfer function matrix is sys2 = C*inv(z*I - A)*B + D, instead of sys2 = C*inv(z*I - A)*B - D which I did wrote done before. The problem still holds.
Edit 2: I have noticted that when I compute the denominator, it is correct.
syms z;
collect(det(z*eye(3) - A),z)
Your assumption that sys2 = C*inv(z*I- A)*B + D is incorrect. The correct equivalent to your state-space system (A,B,C,D) is sys2 = C*inv(s*I- A)*B + D. If you want to express it in terms of z, you'll need to invert the relationship z = exp(s*T). sys1 is the correct representation of your state-space system. What I would suggest for sys2 is to do as follows:
sys1 = ss(mjlsCE.A,mjlsCE.B,mjlsCE.C,mjlsCE.D,Ts);
sys1_c = d2c(sys1);
s = tf('s');
sys2_c = sys1_c.C*inv(s*eye(length(sys1_c.A)) - sys1_c.A)*sys1_c.B + sys1_c.D;
sys2_d = c2d(sys2_c,Ts);
That should give you the correct result.
Due to inacurracy of the inverse function extra unobservable poles and zeros are added to the system. For this reason you need to compute the minimal realization of your transfer function matrix.
Meaning
% Compute transfer function
sys2 = minreal(C*inv(z*eye(3) - A)*B + D);
What you are noticing is actually a numerical instability regarding pole-zero pair cancellations.
If you run the following code:
A = [0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 1; 0.41, -1.21, 1.8] ;
B = [0; 0; 0.01] ;
C = [7, -73, 170] ;
D = 1 ;
sys_ss = ss(A, B, C, D) ;
sys_tf_simp = tf(sys_ss) ;
s = tf('s') ;
sys_tf_full = tf(C*inv(s*eye(3) - A)*B + D) ;
zero(sys_tf_simp)
zero(sys_tf_full)
pole(sys_tf_simp)
pole(sys_tf_full)
you will see that the transfer function formulated by matrices directly has a lot more poles and zeros than the one formulated by MatLab's tf function. You will also notice that every single pair of these "extra" poles and zeros are equal- meaning that they cancel with each other if you were to simply the rational expression. MatLab's tf presents the simplified form, with equal pole-zero pairs cancelled out. This is algebraically equivalent to the unsimplified form, but not numerically.
When you call bode on the unsimplified transfer function, MatLab begins its numerical plotting routine with the pole-zero pairs not cancelled algebraically. If the computer was perfect, the result would be the same as in the simplified case. However, numerical error when evaluating the numerator and denominators effectively leaves some of the pole-zero pairs "uncancelled" and as many of these poles are in the far right side of the s plane, they drastically influence the output behavior.
Check out this link for info on this same problem but from the perspective of design: http://ctms.engin.umich.edu/CTMS/index.php?aux=Extras_PZ
In your original code, you can think of the output drawn in green as what the naive designer wanted to see when he cancelled all his unstable poles with zeros, but the output drawn in red is what he actually got because in practice, finite-precision and real-world tolerances prevent the poles and zeros from cancelling perfectly.
Why is an unobservable / uncontrollable pole? I think this issue comes only because the inverse of a transfer function matrix is inaccurate in Matlab.
Note:
A is 3x3 and the minimal realization has also order 3.
What you did is the inverse of a transfer function matrix, not a symbolic or numeric matrix.
# Discrete system
Ts = 0.01;
A = [0 1 0; 0 0 1; 0.41 -1.21 1.8];
B = [0; 0; 0.01];
C = [7 -73 170];
D = 1;
z = tf('z', Ts)) # z is a discrete tf
A1 = z*eye(3) - A # a tf matrix with a direct feedthrough matrix A
# inverse it, multiply with C and B from left and right, and plus D
G = D + C*inv(A1)*B
G is now a scalar (SISO) transfer function.
Without "minreal", G has order 9 (funny, I don't know how Matlab computes it, perhaps the "Adj(.)/det(.)" method). Matlab cannot cancel the common factors in the numerator and the denominator, because z is of class 'tf' rather than a symbolic variable.
Do you agree or do I have misunderstanding?

Loop seems to go forever when plotting a graph

I have written the following piece of code:
M = [3 0 0; 0 2 0; 0 0 0.5] % mass matrix
i_vals = 1:1000:60e06; % values of k_12 from 1 to 600 million in steps of 1000
modes = zeros(3, length(i_vals));
for n=1:length(i_vals)
i = i_vals(n) % i is the value of k_12
K = [i+8e06 -i -2e06; -i i+2e06 -1e06; -2e06 -1e06 5e06]; % stiffness matrix
[V,L]=eig(K,M);
V(:,I)=V;
A = V(:, [1])
transpose(A)
modes(:, n) = A
end
loglog(i_vals, modes')
But the loop seems to go forever and I do now know what is wrong with it. The idea was to get the first column from matrix V, and see what happens to the 3 elements in this column when value of k_12 is changed.
I don't know how you make this run forever. To me it looks as if it won't run at all. This won't answer your question, but will hopefully help you on the way =)
What do you want to do with this line? V(:,I)=V; What is I? Was it supposed to be i? Btw, using i and j as variables in MATLAB is not recommended (however, if you don't use complex numbers in your field, you shouldn't care too much).
You have a loop that goes 60,000 times, with calculations of eigenvalues etc. That is bound to take time (although not forever, as you state it does). You should get the answer eventually (if only the rest of the code worked). The resolution of your plot would be more than accurate enough with 10,000 or even 100,000 steps at a time.
This part:
A = V(:, [1])
transpose(A)
modes(:, n) = A
could simply be written as:
modes(:,n) = V(:,1)';
assuming you want the transposed of A. transpose(A) does nothing in this context actually. You would have to do A = transpose(A) (or rather A = A') for it to work.
There are all kinds of problems with your code - some of which may contribute to your issue.
You are computing values of i on a linear scale, but ultimately will be plotting on a log scale. You are doing a huge amount of work towards the end, when there is nothing visible in the graph for your effort. Much better to use a log scale for i_vals:
i_vals = logspace(0, 7.778, 200); % to get 200 log spaced values from
% 1 to approx 60E6`
You are using a variable I that has not been defined (in the code snippet you provide). Depending on its size, you may find that V is growing...
You are using a variable name i - while that is legal, it overwrites a built in (sqrt(-1)) which I personally find troublesome.
Your transpose(A); line doesn't do anything (You would have to do A = transpose(A);).
You don't have ; after several lines - this is going to make Matlab want to print to the console. This will take a huge amount of resource. Suppress the output with ; after every statement.
EDIT the following program runs quickly:
M = [3 0 0.0;
0 2 0.0;
0 0 0.5]; % mass matrix
i_vals = logspace(0, 7.78, 200); % values of k_12 from 1 to 600 million in steps of 1000
modes = zeros(3, length(i_vals));
for n=1:length(i_vals)
i = i_vals(n); % i is the value of k_12
K = [i+8e06 -i -2e06; -i i+2e06 -1e06; -2e06 -1e06 5e06]; % stiffness matrix
[V,L]=eig(K,M);
modes(:, n) = V(:,1);
end
loglog(i_vals, modes')
Resulting graph:
If I didn't break anything (hard to know what you were doing with I), maybe this can be helpful.

Plotting time graph in MATLAB

I have a function of this form in MATLAB,
C=S*e^(L*t)*inv(S)*C_0
where my
S=[-2 -3;3 -2]
L=[0.5 0; 0 1.5]
C_0=[1; 1]
I need to plot this function with respect to time. My output C is a 2-by-1 matrix.
What I have done is computed e^L separately using b=expm(L) and then I inserted mpower(b,t) into the function. So my resulting function in the script looks like
b=expm(L);
C=S*mpower(b,t)*inv(S)*C_0;
Now, how should I go about plotting this w.r.t time. I tried defining the time vector and then using it, but quite obviously I get the error message which says matrix dimensions do not agree. Can someone give me a suggestion?
You can probably do this in a vectorised manner but if you're not worried about speed or succinct code, why not just write a for loop?
ts = 1 : 100;
Cs = zeros(2, length(ts) );
S = [-2 -3;3 -2];
L = [0.5 0; 0 1.5];
C_0 = [1; 1];
for ii = 1 : length(ts)
b = expm(L);
Cs(:,ii) = S*mpower(b,ts(ii))*inv(S)*C_0;
end
ts contains the time values, Cs contains the values of C at each time.

Saving derivative values in ode45 in Matlab

I'm simulating equations of motion for a (somewhat odd) system with mass-springs and double pendulum, for which I have a mass matrix and function f(x), and call ode45 to solve
M*x' = f(x,t);
I have 5 state variables, q= [ QDot, phi, phiDot, r, rDot]'; (removed Q because nothing depends on it, QDot is current.)
Now, to calculate some forces, I would like to also save the calculated values of rDotDot, which ode45 calculates for each integration step, however ode45 doesn't give this back. I've searched around a bit, but the only two solutions I've found are to
a) turn this into a 3rd order problem and add phiDotDot and rDotDot to the state vector. I would like to avoid this as much as possible, as it's already non-linear and this really makes matters a lot worse and blows up computation time.
b) augment the state to directly calculate the function, as described here. However, in the example he says to make add a line of zeros in the mass matrix. It makes sense, since otherwise it will integrate the derivative and not just evaluate it at the one point, but on the other hand it makes the mass matrix singular. Doesn't seem to work for me...
This seems like such a basic thing (to want the derivative values of the state vector), is there something quite obvious that I'm not thinking of? (or something not so obvious would be ok too....)
Oh, and global variables are not so great because ode45 calls the f() function several time while refining it's step, so the sizes of the global variable and the returned state vector q don't match at all.
In case someone needs it, here's the code:
%(Initialization of parameters are above this line)
options = odeset('Mass',#massMatrix);
[T,q] = ode45(#f, tspan,q0,options);
function dqdt = f(t,q,p)
% q = [qDot phi phiDot r rDot]';
dqdt = zeros(size(q));
dqdt(1) = -R/L*q(1) - kb/L*q(3) +vs/L;
dqdt(2) = q(3);
dqdt(3) = kt*q(1) + mp*sin(q(2))*lp*g;
dqdt(4) = q(5);
dqdt(5) = mp*lp*cos(q(2))*q(3)^2 - ks*q(4) - (mb+mp)*g;
end
function M = massMatrix(~,q)
M = [
1 0 0 0 0;
0 1 0 0 0;
0 0 mp*lp^2 0 -mp*lp*sin(q(2));
0 0 0 1 0;
0 0 mp*lp*sin(q(2)) 0 (mb+mp)
];
end
The easiest solution is to just re-run your function on each of the values returned by ode45.
The hard solution is to try to log your DotDots to some other place (a pre-allocated matrix or even an external file). The problem is that you might end up with unwanted data points if ode45 secretly does evaluations in weird places.
Since you are using nested functions, you can use their scoping rules to mimic the behavior of global variables.
It's easiest to (ab)use an output function for this purpose:
function solveODE
% ....
%(Initialization of parameters are above this line)
% initialize "global" variable
rDotDot = [];
% Specify output function
options = odeset(...
'Mass', #massMatrix,...
'OutputFcn', #outputFcn);
% solve ODE
[T,q] = ode45(#f, tspan,q0,options);
% show the rDotDots
rDotDot
% derivative
function dqdt = f(~,q)
% q = [qDot phi phiDot r rDot]';
dqdt = [...
-R/L*q(1) - kb/L*q(3) + vs/L
q(3)
kt*q(1) + mp*sin(q(2))*lp*g
q(5)
mp*lp*cos(q(2))*q(3)^2 - ks*q(4) - (mb+mp)*g
];
end % q-dot function
% mass matrix
function M = massMatrix(~,q)
M = [
1 0 0 0 0;
0 1 0 0 0;
0 0 mp*lp^2 0 -mp*lp*sin(q(2));
0 0 0 1 0;
0 0 mp*lp*sin(q(2)) 0 (mb+mp)
];
end % mass matrix function
% the output function collects values for rDotDot at the initial step
% and each sucessful step
function status = outputFcn(t,q,flag)
status = 0;
% at initialization, and after each succesful step
if isempty(flag) || strcmp(flag, 'init')
deriv = f(t,q);
rDotDot(end+1) = deriv(end);
end
end % output function
end
The output function only computes the derivatives at the initial and all successful steps, so it's basically doing the same as what Adrian Ratnapala suggested; re-run the derivative at each of the outputs of ode45; I think that would even be more elegant (+1 for Adrian).
The output function approach has the advantage that you can plot the rDotDot values while the integration is being run (don't forget a drawnow!), which can be very useful for long-running integrations.