Why does the RLOCUS plot curve incorrectly in MATLAB?

Technical Source
2 min readMar 15, 2022

The following lines of code reproduce the problem:

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%rlocus(tf([0 0.21502754557159 -1.05214115726566 2.05983895370513 -2.01687625836747 0.98766449211981 -0.19351354903461], [1 -6 15 -20 15 -6 1], -1, 'Variable', 'z^-1'))

The problem with this plot is that the rlocus drawing routine has connected the wrong points to form lines. For example: the upper most green line starts at its own cross in the midde of

the plot, but ends in the circle of the light green line (the light green line should bend inwards, not outwards).

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The horizontal line is not a problem: the system has one more pole than zero, so there ought to be an asymptote. The grouping near z=1 is indeed confusing, but with little hope for improvement. Plotting the root locus with a very dense grid (see code above) reveals that there is a pole of multiplicity 6 near z=1. As a result, the computed roots in a ball of radius eps^(1/6) = 2e-3 are essentially random, which makes any pairing difficult.

The denser plot shows that there are essentially 6 branches coming off z=1 with angles pi/6 + k*2pi/3, k=0:5. However the computed poles for k=0 do not have matching angles (due to the multiplicity 6 and resulting large uncertainty on the computed value). This explains why the pairing is off.

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