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state variable

[′stāt ‚ver·ē·ə·bəl]
(control systems)
One of a minimum set of numbers which contain enough information about a system's history to enable computation of its future behavior.
(thermodynamics)
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Using an additional state variable which is in fact redundant, the optimality contract with hidden savings is presented in Section 5.
Step 5: Define State Variable. Since the discrete large-signal state equations in (A.15), (A.16), and (A.21) have a high nonlinearity, control design technique based on the linear control theory cannot directly be applied.
[Q.sub.i] for i = 1, ..., 9 is the right-hand side of the differential equations of ith state variable in system (1).
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Treating [T.sub.l] as a state variable, the system can be described as follows:
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