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MODELING Index: MATLAB Commands List

ANALYSIS
Following is a list of commands used in the Control Tutorials for MATLAB

and Simulink. Use help in MATLAB for more information on how to use any
CONTROL
of these commands.

PID
In these tutorials, we use commands/functions from MATLAB, from the

ROOT LOCUS Control Systems Toolbox, as well as some functions which we wrote

ourselves. For those functions which are not standard in MATLAB, we give
FREQUENCY
links to their descriptions. For more information on writing MATLAB
STATE-SPACE functions, see the function page.

DIGITAL
Command Description

abs Absolute value

SIMULINK
Compute the K matrix to place the poles of A-BK, see
acker
MODELING also place

CONTROL axis Set the scale of the current plot, see also plot, figure

Draw the Bode plot, see also logspace, margin,

bode
nyquist1

c2d Continuous system to discrete system

clf Clear figure

Convolution (useful for multiplying polynomials), see

conv
also deconv

ctrb The controllability matrix, see also obsv

deconv Deconvolution and polynomial division, see also conv

det Find the determinant of a matrix

Linear-quadratic regulator design for discrete-time

dlqr
systems, see also lqr

eig Compute the eigenvalues of a matrix

eps MATLAB's numerical tolerance

feedback Connect linear systems in a feedback loop

figure Create a new figure or redefine the current figure, see

also subplot, axis

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for For loop

format Number format (significant digits, exponents)

function Creates function m-files

grid Draw the grid lines on the current plot

gtext Add a piece of text to the current plot, see also text

help Matlab help documentation

hold Hold the current graph, see also figure

if Conditionally execute statements

Returns the imaginary part of a complex number, see

imag
also real

Impulse response of linear systems, see also step,

impulse
lsim

input Prompt for user input

inv Find the inverse of a matrix

legend Graph legend

length Length of a vector, see also size

linspace Returns a linearly spaced vector

Produce a Nyquist plot on a logarithmic scale, see

lnyquist
also nyquist1

log Natural logarithm, also log10: common logarithm

loglog Plot using log-log scale, also semilogx/semilogy

logspace Returns a logarithmically spaced vector

Linear quadratic regulator design for continuous

lqr
systems, see also dlqr

lsim Simulate a linear system, see also step, impulse

Returns the gain margin, phase margin, and

margin
crossover frequencies, see also bode

Produces a minimal realization of a system (forces

minreal
pole/zero cancellations)

norm Norm of a vector

Draw the Nyquist plot, see also lnyquist. Note this

command was written to replace the MATLAB

nyquist1
standard command nyquist to get more accurate

Nyquist plots.

obsv The observability matrix, see also ctrb

ones Returns a vector or matrix of ones, see also zeros

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place Compute the K matrix to place the poles of A-BK, see

also acker

plot Draw a plot, see also figure, axis, subplot.

poly Returns the characteristic polynomial

polyval Polynomial evaluation

print Print the current plot (to a printer or postscript file)

pzmap Pole-zero map of linear systems

Find the number of linearly independent rows or

rank
columns of a matrix

Returns the real part of a complex number, see also

real
imag

rlocfind Find the value of k and the poles at the selected point

rlocus Draw the root locus

roots Find the roots of a polynomial

rscale Find the scale factor for a full-state feedback system

Set(gca,'Xtick',xticks,'Ytick',yticks) to control the

set
number and spacing of tick marks on the axes

Generate grid lines of constant damping ratio (zeta)

sgrid
and natural frequency (Wn), see also sigrid, zgrid

Gives the dimension of a vector or matrix, see also

size
length

sqrt Square root

Create state-space models or convert LTI model to

ss
state space, see also tf

ssdata Access to state-space data. See also tfdata

stairs Stairstep plot for discrete response

step Plot the step response, see also impulse, lsim

Divide the plot window up into pieces, see also plot,

subplot
figure

Add a piece of text to the current plot, see also title,

text
xlabel, ylabel, gtext

Creation of transfer functions or conversion to

tf
transfer function, see also ss

tfdata Access to transfer function data, see also ssdata

title Add a title to the current plot

Returns the bandwidth frequency given the damping

wbw
ratio and the rise or settling time.

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xlabel/ylabel Add a label to the horizontal/vertical axis of the

current plot, see also title, text, gtext

zeros Returns a vector or matrix of zeros

Generates grid lines of constant damping ratio (zeta)

zgrid
and natural frequency (Wn), see also sgrid, sigrid

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