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Control theory often takes the mathematical model of the to-be-control-led system for granted. In contrast, port-Hamiltonian systems theory bridges the gap between modelling and control for physical systems. It provides a unified framework…
With the goal of increasing the speed and efficiency in robotic dual arm manipulation, a novel control approach is presented that utilizes intentional simultaneous impacts to rapidly grasp objects. This approach uses the time-invariant…
We develop two local energy methods for distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems on one-dimensional spatial domains. The methods are applied to derive a characterization of exponential stability directly in terms of the energy…
Interconnection and damping assignment, passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) has proven to be a successful control technique for the stabilisation of many nonlinear systems. In this paper, we propose a method to robustify a system which has…
Hydrogen's growing role in the transition towards climate-neutral energy systems necessitates structured modeling frameworks. Existing gas network models, largely developed for natural gas, fail to capture hydrogen systems distinct…
Passivity-based control (PBC) for port-Hamiltonian systems provides an intuitive way of achieving stabilization by rendering a system passive with respect to a desired storage function. However, in most instances the control law is obtained…
In this work we present a constructive method to design a family of virtual contraction based controllers that solve the standard trajectory tracking problem of flexible-joint robots (FJRs) in the port-Hamiltonian (pH) framework. The…
Virtual Decomposition Control (VDC) has emerged as a powerful modular framework for real-world robotic control, particularly in contact-rich tasks. Despite its widespread use, VDC has been fundamentally limited to first-order impedance…
Haptic upper limb exoskeletons are robots that assist human operators during task execution while having the ability to render virtual or remote environments. Therefore, the stability of such robots in physical human-robot-environment…
A fluid-structure interaction model in a port-Hamiltonian representation is derived for a classical guitar. We combine the laws of continuum mechanics for solids and fluids within a unified port-Hamiltonian (pH) modeling approach by…
With this contribution, we give a complete and comprehensive framework for modeling the dynamics of complex mechanical structures as port-Hamiltonian systems. This is motivated by research on the potential of lightweight construction using…
Port-Hamiltonian systems have gained a lot of attention in recent years due to their inherent valuable properties in modeling and control. In this paper, we are interested in constructing linear port-Hamiltonian systems from time-domain…
The paper establishes a methodology to overcome the difficulty of dynamic frame alignment and system separation in impedance modeling of ac grids, and thereby enables impedance-based whole-system modeling of generator-converter composite…
In this note, we consider port-Hamiltonian structures in numerical optimal control of ordinary differential equations. By introducing a novel class of nonlinear monotone port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems, we show that the primal-dual gradient…
In this paper a method of controlling nonholonomic systems within the port-Hamiltonian (pH) framework is presented. It is well known that nonholonomic systems can be represented as pH systems without Lagrange multipliers by considering a…
Port-Hamiltonian systems theory provides a structured approach to modelling, optimization and control of multiphysical systems. Yet, its relationship to thermodynamics seems to be unclear. The Hamiltonian is traditionally thought of as…
In these lectures notes, we review our recent works addressing various problems of finding the nearest stable system to an unstable one. After the introduction, we provide some preliminary background, namely, defining Port-Hamiltonian…
This paper presents a systematic study of the relative entropy technique for compressible motions of continuum bodies described as Hamiltonian flows. While the description for the classical mechanics of $N$ particles involves a Hamiltonian…
We combine energy-stable and port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems to obtain energy-stable port-Hamiltonian (espH) systems. The idea is to extend the known energy-stable systems with an input-output port, which results in a pH formulation. One…
Feedback controllers for port-Hamiltonian systems reveal an intrinsic inverse optimality property since each passivating state feedback controller is optimal with respect to some specific performance index. Due to the nonlinear…