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Controllability

Module by: Thanos Antoulas, JP Slavinsky

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What do we mean by the term controllability? Simply put, we want to know if we can control the state of a system when we only have access to the inputs (i.e. when we can not directly modify the system's state). If we can "steer" a system to a certain state by controlling its inputs, we can then ask ourselves if there is a way to find the most efficient method of making this transformation.

Developing the Concept of a Controllable Space

Say we have the following system:
x ′=Axt+But x A x t B u t (1)
Example RLC Circuit
control_rlc.png
Figure 1
x=x1x2 x x1 x2 In this case, an example controllability question could seek to know if there exists an input u such that: x1ms=10V1A x 1 ms 10 V 1 A
Instead of deriving the general solution for what is called a system's controllable space, XcontrXcontr, we will simply state it and then give a justification for it.
Formally, XcontrXcontr is the set of all controllable states. We will define it in terms of a quantity known as the controllability matrix, CABCAB:
CAB=BABA2B…An-1B C A B B A B A 2 B … A n 1 B (2)
The controllable space can then be found by taking the image of this matrix.
Xcontr=imCAB Xcontr im CAB (3)
To justify this expression, we begin with the formal matrix equation for a system's state and substitute in the infinite series definition of the matrix exponential. We can then extract the AA and BB matrices into a larger matrix multiplication.
x=∫ⅇAt-τBuτdτ=∫I+At-τ+A22t-τ2+…Buτdτ=B∫uτdτ+AB∫t-τ1!uτdτ+A2B∫t-τ22!uτdτ+…=BABA2B…An-1B∫uτdτ∫t-τuτdτ⋮∫t-τnn!uτdτ x τ A t τ B u τ τ I A t τ A 2 2 t τ 2 … B u τ B τ u τ A B τ t τ 1 u τ A 2 B τ t τ 2 2 u τ … B A B A 2 B … A n 1 B τ u τ τ t τ u τ ⋮ τ t τ n n u τ (4)
As the second term in the multiplication is dependent on uu, it can be thought of as a free variable. Therefore, the set of possible values for xx is dependent on the image of first term, which can be seen to be the controllability matrix as defined above.
Continuing the example circuit started above, we can get a better feel for what controllability means. Here are the state equations: x1 ′=-1R1Cx1+1R1Cu x1 -1 R1 C x1 1 R1 C u x2 ′=-R2Lx2+1Lu x2 R2 L x2 1 L u Pulling the AA and BB matrices out of these equations, we can compute the controllability matrix CAB=AAB C A B AAB . Note that as it is only a second order system, the controllability matrix is only two-dimensional. CAB=1R1C-1R1C21L-R2L2 C A B 1 R1 C -1 R1 C 2 1 L R2 L 2
Immediately, we can understand some things about the system by looking at the rank of the CC matrix. Let's look at the determinant: detC=1LR1C-R2L+1R1C C 1 L R1 C R2 L 1 R1 C If the determinant of the controllability matrix is non-zero, then Xcontr=imC=ℝ2 Xcontr im C ℝ2 ; the system is completely controllable. For this to happen we'd need to ensure that R2L≠1R1C R2 L 1 R1 C . However, if this inequality is not satisfied and the determinant of the controllability matrix is 00, then we know that it is not full rank. If it is not full rank, then XcontrXcontr will not span the entire space and the system is not completely controllable. The physical effect here is resonance in the circuit. This reduces our controllability matrix to only one dimension (the two columns are linearly dependent). Xcontr=span1R1C1L Xcontr span 1 R1 C 1 L

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