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P M - E L S: Ractice ID Term XAM Inear Ystems Jo Ao P. Hespanha

This document contains a practice mid-term exam on linear systems. It includes 5 questions covering topics such as computing state-space and linearized models of systems, solving homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear systems, stability of systems, transfer functions, and writing the inverse of a matrix as a linear combination of other matrices.

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P M - E L S: Ractice ID Term XAM Inear Ystems Jo Ao P. Hespanha

This document contains a practice mid-term exam on linear systems. It includes 5 questions covering topics such as computing state-space and linearized models of systems, solving homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear systems, stability of systems, transfer functions, and writing the inverse of a matrix as a linear combination of other matrices.

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P RACTICE M ID - TERM E XAM

L INEAR S YSTEMS

Joao P. Hespanha

Please explain all you answers.


1. The following equation models the motion of a pendulum:
+ k sin =
where R is the angle of the pendulum with the vertical, R an applied torque, and k a positive constant.
(a) Compute a state-space model for the system when u := is viewed as the input and y := as the output.
(b) Compute the linearization of the system around the solution (t) = (t) = (t) = 0, t 0.
2. Consider the homogeneous linear time-varying system
x = A(t)x, x(0) = x0
with state transition matrix (t, ). Consider also the non-homogeneous system
z = A(t)z + x(t), z(0) = z0 .
whose input x(t) is the state of the homogeneous system.
(a) Compute x(t) and z(t) as a function of x0 , z0 , and . Hint: no integrals should appear in your answer.
(b) What must be true of z0 to have z(T ) = 0 for some particular time T > 0.
3. Compute eAt for

0 1 0
A = 0 0 0 .
0 0 2
Is the system x = Ax asymptotically stable? What about marginally stable?
4. Compute the transfer function of the system
x = Ax + bu
y = cx + u,
where

2 0 0 1  
A := 0 0 0 , b := 0 , c := 1 1 1 .
0 0 1 1
Is this system BIBO stable?
5. Can the inverse of a nn nonsingular matrix A be written as a linear combination of the matrices I, A, A2 , . . . , An1 ?
Carefully justify your answer. Hint: Mr. Cayley and his friend Mr. Hamilton would know how to do this with
their hands tied behind their backs.

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