I am getting this error "The right and left hand sides must have the same number of elements" while computing g(i)

function [Sa,Sb,Sc]= control(xhatout,Vo_meas,v_ref,If_k)

% Sampling time of the predictive algorithm [s]

Ts = 33e-6;

%f = 50*(2*pi); % frequency [rad/s]

Vdc = 700; % DC-link voltage [V]

L = 2e-3;

C = 50e-6;

% Voltage vectors

v0 = 0;

v1 = 2/3*Vdc;

v2 = 1/3*Vdc + 1j*sqrt(3)/3*Vdc;

v3 = -1/3*Vdc + 1j*sqrt(3)/3*Vdc;

v4 = -2/3*Vdc;

v5 = -1/3*Vdc - 1j*sqrt(3)/3*Vdc;

v6 = 1/3*Vdc - 1j*sqrt(3)/3*Vdc;

v7 = 0;

v = [v0 v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7];

% Switching states

states = [0 0 0;1 0 0;1 1 0;0 1 0;0 1 1;0 0 1;1 0 1;1 1 1];

% Previous Optimum vector and measured current at instant k-1

persistent x_old i_old v_old

% Initialize values

if isempty(x_old), x_old = 1; end

if isempty(i_old), i_old = 0+1j*0; end

if isempty(v_old), v_old = 0+1j*0;end

g = zeros(2,8);

% Read current reference inputs at sampling instant k

vk_ref = v_ref(1) + 1j*v_ref(2);

vk = Vo_meas(1) + 1j*Vo_meas(2);

io = [0 0 1]*xhatout;

for i = 1:8

% Cost function

vi = Vdc*x_old;

if_k1 = If_k+((Ts/L)*(vi-Vo_meas));

vc_k1 = vk+((Ts/C)*(If_k-io));

g(i) = abs(real(v_ref - vc_k1)) + abs(imag(v_ref - vc_k1));

end

% Optimization

[~,x_opt] = min(g);

% Store the present value of x_opt

x_old = x_opt;

% Output switching states

Sa = states(x_opt,1);

Sb = states(x_opt,2);

Sc = states(x_opt,3);

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Answer 1

[Voss]

Try replacing this line:

g(i) = abs(real(v_ref - vc_k1)) + abs(imag(v_ref - vc_k1));

with this line:

g(:,i) = abs(real(v_ref(:) - vc_k1(:))) + abs(imag(v_ref(:) - vc_k1(:)));

The reason is that g(i) is a single element of g, but v_ref has (at least) 2 elements (don't know how many because we don't know what you send to the function), so the right-hand side is going to be non-scalar. From the initialization of g (g = zeros(2,8);) we can see the size of g is 2-by-8 so it's likely that each iteration of the loop is meant to set a column of g, i.e., g(:,i), rather than a single element g(i).

Answer 2

[Cheng Syuan Ye]

Hello, have you solved the problem, I am also researching recently, what is the final solution?

[Voss]

The answer to this particular question is:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1632345-i-am-getting-this-error-the-right-and-left-hand-sides-must-have-the-same-number-of-elements-while#answer_879170