Creating a Polytope

To be able to compute discrete equivalents the definition of the problem needs to be put on a form understandable by the toolbox.

Several examples are included in the demo subdirectory as demosimplex*.m/demopolytope*.m and a small example is shown below.

Notice that the toolbox initially only supported simplices and this carries over in some of the naming conventions.

Example polytope creation (simplex)

%The dimension of the state space
s.dim=3;

%The vertices
s.vertices={[2;2;1],[1;2;1],[1;1;1],[1.3;1.3;2]};

%Helper function simplicial state/input space. If you want to create a
%polytope follow the steps shown for the input
s=makesimplex(s);

%The system dynamics
s.dynamics.A=[0 1 0; 0 0 1; 0 0 0];
s.dynamics.B=[0 1; 1 0;0 0 ];
s.dynamics.C=[0;0;0];

%The input space is a 2 dimensional polytope
s.input.dim=2;
s.input.vertices={[1;0.5],-[1;0.5],[-1;0.5],[1;-0.5]};

%We can't use makesimplex on polytopes so it is created manually
%The vertices of facet 1
s.input.facet{1}.vertices={1,3};

%A vertice not belonging to facet 1
s.input.facet{1}.opposit=4;

s.input.facet{2}.vertices={1,4};
s.input.facet{2}.opposit=2;
s.input.facet{3}.vertices={2,3};
s.input.facet{3}.opposit=1;
s.input.facet{4}.vertices={2,4};
s.input.facet{4}.opposit=3;

%Prepare the polytope
s=preparepolytope(s);

When the computations on the simplex are done, some space can be saved by using the function s=cleansimplex(s).