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This work introduces the empirical cross gramian for multiple-input-multiple-output systems. The cross gramian is a tool for reducing the state space of control systems, which conjoins controllability and observability information into a…
When balanced truncation is used for model order reduction, one has to solve a pair of Lyapunov equations for two Gramians and uses them to construct a reduced-order model. Although advances in solving such equations have been made, it is…
The theory of nonlinear balanced truncation provides a system-theoretic framework for model reduction that preserves important properties such as stability, controllability, and observability. We present a scalable algorithm for computing…
In this article, we show that the projection-free, snapshot-based, balanced truncation method can be applied directly to unstable systems. We prove that even for unstable systems, the unmodified balanced proper orthogonal decomposition…
This work discusses model reduction for differential-algebraic systems with quadratic output equations. Under mild conditions, these systems can be transformed into a Weierstra{\ss} canonical form and, thus, be decoupled into differential…
This paper deals with the balanced truncation model reduction of discrete-time, linear time-varying, heterogeneous subsystems interconnected over finite arbitrary directed graphs. The information transfer between the subsystems is subject…
Balanced truncation is a well-established model order reduction method which has been applied to a variety of problems. Recently, a connection between linear Gaussian Bayesian inference problems and the system-theoretic concept of balanced…
We propose two kinds of model order reduction methods for discrete time-delay systems with inhomogeneous initial conditions. The peculiar properties of discrete Walsh functions are directly utilized to compute the Walsh coefficients of the…
This paper presents data-driven implementations of balanced truncation and several of its generalizations that rely exclusively on transfer function samples on the imaginary axis. Rather than implicitly approximating the Gramians via…
We extend observability metrics based on the empirical observability Gramian from deterministic nonlinear systems to nonlinear stochastic systems in order to capture the impact of process noise on observability. We demonstrate that the…
We consider the problem of constructing reduced models for large scale systems with poles in general domains in the complex plane (as opposed to, e.g., the open left-half plane or the open unit disk). Our goal is to design a model reduction…
In this paper, we consider a model reduction technique for stabilizable and detectable stochastic systems. It is based on a pair of Gramians that we analyze in terms of well-posedness. Subsequently, dominant subspaces of the stochastic…
The paper proposes a model reduction algorithm for linear hybrid systems, i.e., hybrid systems with externally induced discrete events, with linear continuous subsystems, and linear reset maps. The model reduction algorithm is based on…
A shortcoming of existing reachability approaches for nonlinear systems is the poor scalability with the number of continuous state variables. To mitigate this problem we present a simulation-based approach where we first sample a number of…
Nonlinear balanced truncation is a model order reduction technique that reduces the dimension of nonlinear systems in a manner that accounts for either open- or closed-loop observability and controllability aspects of the system. A…
We consider two approaches to balanced truncation of stochastic linear systems, which follow from different generalizations of the reachability Gramian of deterministic systems. Both preserve mean-square asymptotic stability, but only the…
Balanced truncation, a technique from robust control theory, is a systematic method for producing simple approximate models of complex linear systems. This technique may have significant applications in physics, particularly in the study of…
We present a balanced truncation model reduction approach for a class of nonlinear systems with time-varying and uncertain inputs. First, our approach brings the nonlinear system into quadratic-bilinear~(QB) form via a process called…
Reduced-order modeling techniques, including balanced truncation and $\mathcal{H}_2$-optimal model reduction, exploit the structure of linear dynamical systems to produce models that accurately capture the dynamics. For nonlinear systems…
This paper considers the robustness of an uncertain nonlinear system along a finite-horizon trajectory. The uncertain system is modeled as a connection of a nonlinear system and a perturbation. The analysis relies on three ingredients.…