11.25. Routh Stability Criterion (State-Space Representation)

A single input single output system can be expressed in state variable form as:

11.13.

In such a case, characteristic equation of the system is given by:

11.14.

In MATLAB, the characteristic equation is obtained by using the command:

poly(a);

where

a is matrix A in Eqs. 11.13 and 11.14, and the routh function can be used for this characteristic equation to check the stability of the system.

Example 11.34.

The dynamics of a system is represented by the vector–matrix differential ...

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