Hi,
I understand that you want to write MATLAB code to be able to add a disturbance at some given time while simulating your system and observe system dynamics. This can easily be done on Simulink using the step and transfer function blocks.
To achieve this in MATLAB, you should use the ‘lsim’ function. An example code is as follows:
TF = tf([1 3],[1 5 3]); % some transfer function
h = 0.001; % sample time
T = 1000; % simulation time
t = 0:h:T; % time samples
T_dist = 500; % time at which disturbance is introduced
t1 = 0:h:T_dist-h;
t2 = T_dist:h:T;
% divide the input signal into two parts. initial input of 1 is given at 0s and
% disturbance of 0.2 is given at 500s.
u = [ones(1,length(t1)),0.2*ones(1,length(t2))];
lsim(TF,u,t);
Please refer to the following documentation for more information: Plot simulated time response of dynamic system to arbitrary inputs; simulated response data - MATLAB lsim - MathWorks India
