Robust, positive and exact model reduction via monotone matrices
Systems and Control
2025-09-18 v4 Systems and Control
Abstract
This work focuses on the problem of exact model reduction of positive linear systems, by leveraging minimal realization theory. While determining the existence of a positive reachable realization remains in general an open problem, we are able to fully characterize the cases in which the new model is obtained with non-negative reduction matrices, and hence positivity of the reduced model is robust with respect to small perturbations of the original system. The characterization is obtained by specializing monotone matrix theory to positive matrices. In addition, we provide a systematic method to construct positive reductions also when minimal ones are not available, by exploiting algebraic techniques.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2406.11696,
title = {Robust, positive and exact model reduction via monotone matrices},
author = {Marco Cortese and Tommaso Grigoletto and Francesco Ticozzi and Augusto Ferrante},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11696},
year = {2025}
}