Control Systems Engineering
In control engineering and other areas of science and engineering, state variables are used to represent the states of a general system. The state variables can be used to describe the state space of the system. The equations relating the current state and output of a system to its current input and past states are called the state equations. The state equations for a linear time invariant system can be expressed using coefficient matrices:
- RN*N, RN*L, RM*N, RM*L,
where N, L and M are the dimensions of the vectors describing the state, input and output, respectively.
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