Solving a System of 2nd Order Nonlinear ODEs

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Hi, I need help with setting up the code for the below 2 non-linear differential equations. I do not have symbolic toolbox. Below is how I tried it but didn't work. Any help will be appreciated.
clear all;clc
function dydt=mbd(M,m,g,lc,k)
y1=y(1);
y2=y(2);
z1=z(1); %z1
z2=z(2); %z2
y5=(1/(M+m))*((m*l/2)*(sin(z(1)))*y6 + (m*l/2)*(cos(z(1)))*(z(2))^2 ...
-c*y(2)-k*y(1));
y6=(3/(m*l^2))*((m*l/2)*(sin(z(1)))*y5 - (m*g*l/2)*(sin(z(1))));
dydt=[y1;y2;y3;y4;y5;y6];
end

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Sam Chak
Sam Chak on 3 Apr 2022
Hey @mpz
It doesn't work that way because you have created an algebraic loop error where depends y5 that is your , which depends on y6 that is from the beginning.
I'll try to explain how to solve it without using difficult math or matrix operations. Here, the governing equations are given by
Equation 5:
Equation 6:
.
Equation 6 can be rearranged to become
so that it can substituted into Equation 5 to eliminate
and then be simplified to become
... Equation (7).
Note the the right-hand side of Equation 7 does not have the term . Subtituting Equation 7 into the simplified Equation 6 yields
... Equation (8).
Now you can rewrite the mbd ode function in state-space form correctly. Note that the ODEs should have only 4 states (instead of 6 states):
If you find my technical explanation is helpful, please vote and accept the answer.
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Sam Chak
Sam Chak on 3 Apr 2022
Hi @mpz
Sorry, a little late. The code should look like this. Also thank @Torsten for showing the corrections.
function mpz
close all
clc
tspan = [0 20]; % time span of simulation
y0 = [0.5 pi/3 0 0]; % initial values
[t, y] = ode45(@(t, y) odefcn(t, y), tspan, y0);
plot(t, y, 'linewidth', 1.5)
grid on
xlabel('Time, t [sec]')
ylabel({'$x,\; \theta,\; \dot{x},\; \dot{\theta}$'}, 'Interpreter', 'latex')
title('Time responses of the system states')
legend({'x', '$\theta$', '$\dot{x}$', '$\dot{\theta}$'}, 'Interpreter', 'latex', 'location', 'best')
end
function dydt = odefcn(t, y) % Ordinary Differenctial Equations
dydt = zeros(4,1);
g = 0.2;
M = 2;
m = pi/4;
l = 1;
C = 0.25;
k = 0.5;
dydt(1) = y(3);
dydt(2) = y(4);
dydt(3) = (1/(M + m - (3/4)*(m*(sin(y(2)))^2)))*(((m*l/2)*(cos(y(2))*(y(4))^2)) - ((3/4)*(m*g*((sin(y(2)))^2))) - (C*(y(3))) - (k*(y(1))));
dydt(4) = ((3*sin(y(2)))/(2*l*(M + m - (3/4)*(m*(sin(y(2)))^2))))*(((m*l/2)*(cos(y(2))*(y(4))^2)) - ((3/4)*(m*g*((sin(y(2)))^2))) - (C*(y(3))) - (k*(y(1)))) - ((3*g*sin(y(2)))/(2*l));
end
Result:

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Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens on 3 Apr 2022
You haven't passed y and z to the funcion in
function dydt=mbd(M,m,g,lc,k)
Probably needs to be more like
function dydt=mbd(t,y,z,M,m,g,lc,k)
with the calling function modified accordingly.

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