MAE 506: Advanced System Modeling, Dynamics and Control: Lecture 20 - Stability Analysis Ch. 6 in Text
MAE 506: Advanced System Modeling, Dynamics and Control: Lecture 20 - Stability Analysis Ch. 6 in Text
Spring Berman
Fall 2014
Phase Portraits
! x $ ! f (x , x )
Drawn from the vector field of a dynamical system
1
&=# 1 1 2
x = #
Each point represents a possible system state, x
#" x2 &% #" f2 (x1, x2 )
An arrow shows the velocity x at state x
x = f(x eq ) = 0 xeq = equilibrium point / stationary point / critical point
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&
&%
Electronic
oscillator
model
Multiple equilibria
Stability about an equilibrium point is dependent on initial
conditions
States can go to infinity in finite time
Small changes in initial conditions
may lead to widely diverging outcomes:
system is deterministic but not predictable
(chaos)
Lorenz attractor (a set of chaotic solutions of the Lorenz system)
x = Ax
! x $ ! A B $! x $
&# &
# &=#
" y % " C D %" y %
Characteristic polynomial:
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