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$\mathcal{H}_2$-gap model reduction for stabilizable and detectable systems

Numerical Analysis 2019-10-01 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We formulate here an approach to model reduction that is well-suited for linear time-invariant control systems that are stabilizable and detectable but may otherwise be unstable. We introduce a modified H2\mathcal{H}_2-error metric, the H2\mathcal{H}_2-gap, that provides an effective measure of model fidelity in this setting. While the direct evaluation of the H2\mathcal{H}_2-gap requires the solutions of a pair of algebraic Riccati equations associated with related closed-loop systems, we are able to work entirely within an interpolatory framework, developing algorithms and supporting analysis that do not reference full-order closed-loop Gramians. This leads to a computationally effective strategy yielding reduced models designed so that the corresponding reduced closed-loop systems will interpolate the full-order closed-loop system at specially adapted interpolation points, without requiring evaluation of the full-order closed-loop system nor even computation of the feedback law that determines it. The analytical framework and computational algorithm presented here provides an effective new approach toward constructing reduced-order models for unstable systems. Numerical examples for an unstable convection diffusion equation and a linearized incompressible Navier-Stokes equation illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.

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@article{arxiv.1909.13764,
  title  = {$\mathcal{H}_2$-gap model reduction for stabilizable and detectable systems},
  author = {Tobias Breiten and Chris A. Beattie and Serkan Gugercin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13764},
  year   = {2019}
}
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