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# Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
#
# This file is part of Octave.
#
# Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
# Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
# later version.
#
# Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
# for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
# Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
function retval = is_controllable (a, b, tol)
# Usage: is_controllable (a, b {,tol})
#
# Returns 1 if the pair (a, b) is controllable, or 0 if not.
#
# See also: size, rows, columns, length, is_matrix, is_scalar, is_vector
#
# This should really use the method below, but I'm being lazy for now:
#
# Controllability is determined by applying Arnoldi iteration with
# complete re-orthogonalization to obtain an orthogonal basis of the
# Krylov subspace.
#
# (FIX ME... The Krylov subspace approach is not done yet!)
# n-1
# span ([b,a*b,...,a^ b]).
#
# tol is a roundoff paramter, set to 2*eps if omitted.
# Written by A. S. Hodel (scotte@eng.auburn.edu) August, 1993.
if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3)
n = is_square (a);
[nr, nc] = size (b);
if (n == 0 || n != nr || nc == 0)
retval = 0;
else
m = b;
tmp = b;
for ii = 1:(n-1)
tmp = a * tmp;
m = [m, tmp];
endfor
# If n is of any significant size, m will be low rank, so be careful!
if (nargin == 3)
if (is_scalar (tol))
retval = (rank (m, tol) == n);
else
error ("is_controllable: tol must be a scalar");
endif
else
retval = (rank (m) == n);
endif
endif
else
usage ("is_controllable (a, b)");
endif
endfunction