Stabilize a system using state feedback:
A system with two masses, a spring, and a damper:
The choice of poles can be used to tune the response of the system:
The gain

gives an overdamped response, while

results in a slightly damped system:
Compute the state feedback gains to regulate an inverted pendulum about the upright position:
Displacements

and

of the cart and the pendulum from an initial cart position of

:
The displacements are also regulated when disturbances are present:
The motion of a spacecraft linearized about a circular Kepler orbit:
Determine a set of thruster commands to regain the nominal trajectory after an initial disturbance:
The response plot:
Solve the deadbeat control problem of determining the control input required to bring the output of a discrete-time system to zero in the smallest number of time steps:
With the poles at the origin, the output of a third-order system is zero in 3 time steps: