Engineersphere.com » Papa_Smurf http://engineersphere.com doesn't have to make sense to you, but it's probably great for your health. Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:05:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Root Locus Method in MATLAB http://engineersphere.com/matlab/root-locus-method-in-matlab.html http://engineersphere.com/matlab/root-locus-method-in-matlab.html#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:43:19 +0000 Papa_Smurf http://engineersphere.com/?p=1025

To start out, setup the open loop transfer function.

G(s)H(s) = \frac{K*(numerator)}{(denominator)}

Next, you can choose to set up the MATLAB code in a few different ways. First make sure that both the numerator and denominator are in acceptable forms.

[1 2 3] is the same as saying s^{2}+2s+3

Using an example:

G(s)H(s) = \frac{K}{(s+8)}

We can write the numerator and denominator MATLAB codes as:

>>numerator=[1];

>>denominator=[1 8];

For a more complex problem we can bypass the long and tedious expansion process and use the convolution function in MATLAB.

G(s)H(s)=\frac{K}{(s+1)(s^2+6s+18)}

Here, the denominator is also represented by (s+1)*(s+3+3j)*(s+3-3j). Being three seperate parts, we can use convolution once for two of them, then use convolution again with the remaining part. Just look at the example:

conv( A , conv( B , C ) )  —> denominator = conv( [1 1], conv( [1 3+3*j], [1 3-3*j] ) );

After we define our numerator and denominator in MATLAB, we can use the root locus function then set our axis parameters as follows.

>>rlocus( numerator, denominator )

>>axis([-10 10 -10 10])

Your plot should look similar to the following for this example:

root-locus-plot

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