• DocumentCode
    3171937
  • Title

    What Are the Physical Dimensions of the A Matrix?

  • Author

    Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Harish J. ; Bernstein, Dennis S. ; Venugopal, Ravinder

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    9-13 July 2007
  • Firstpage
    2491
  • Lastpage
    2496
  • Abstract
    Physical dimensions are the link between mathematical models and the real world. In this article we extended results of the work of Hart (1995) by determining the dimensional structure of a matrix under which standard operations involving the inverse, powers, exponential, and eigenvalues are valid. These results were applied to state space models. We also distinguished between different types of dimensionless units.
  • Keywords
    eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; matrix algebra; state-space methods; eigenvalues; exponentials; inverse matrix; mathematical model; matrix dimensional structure; physical dimensions; state space model; Aerodynamics; Angular velocity; Books; Cities and towns; Linear algebra; Mathematics; Oscillators; Physics computing; State-space methods; Velocity control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 2007. ACC '07
  • Conference_Location
    New York, NY
  • ISSN
    0743-1619
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0988-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0743-1619
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACC.2007.4282886
  • Filename
    4282886