Find the all elements of unknown matrix in MATLAB?

Question

I have a 4x4 matrix given and I have to solve this lyapnov equation and find the unknown matrix which satisfies the below equation .

a = [0 1 0 0;0 0 -1 0;0 0 0 1;0 0 5 0];

f = [-1 1 0 0;-1 -1 0 0;0 0 -1.5 0.5;0 0 -0.5 -1.5];


b = [0;1;0;-2];

k = [1 0 1 0];

The equation is given at - tf = bk.

a*t - t*f = b*k ;

where t = 4x4 unknown matrix . Can you help me find matrix t ?

Answer 1

You could also use symbolic math to create a system of linear equation and then solve this system:

% Your variables
a = [0 1 0 0;0 0 -1 0;0 0 0 1;0 0 5 0];
f = [-1 1 0 0;-1 -1 0 0;0 0 -1.5 0.5;0 0 -0.5 -1.5];
b = [0;1;0;-2];
k = [1 0 1 0];

% The unknows:
t = sym('t', [4 4]);

% Create the symbolic system of linear equation
eq = a*t - t*f == b*k;

% Equation to matrix 
[A,b] = equationsToMatrix(eq);

% Solve the system and get a numeric solution
sol = double(reshape(A\b,[4,4])).'

% sol =
%
%    0.0690   -0.3276   -0.0853   -0.1973
%    0.2586    0.3966    0.2267    0.2533
%   -0.3448    0.1379   -0.5333    0.2667
%    0.2069   -0.4828    0.6667   -0.6667