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| | State space (controls) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In (Click link for more info and facts about control engineering) control engineering, a state space representation is a mathematical model of a physical system as a set of input, output and state variables related by first-order (An equation containing differentials of a function) differential equations. |
 | | In electronic systems, the number of state variables is the same as the number of energy storage elements in the circuit ((An electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge) capacitors and (An electrical device that introduces inductance into a circuit) inductors). |
 | | x is the "state vector", y is the "output vector", u is the "input (or control) vector", A is the "state matrix", B is the "input matrix", C is the "output matrix", and D is the "feedthrough (or feedforward) matrix". |
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