Related papers: Observability for port-Hamiltonian systems
In control theory, researchers need to understand a system's local and global behaviors in relation to its initial conditions. When discussing observability, the main focus is on the ability to analyze the system using an output space…
In this paper we study a class of physical systems that combine a finite number of mechanical and thermodynamic observables. We call them finite dimensional thermo-mechanical systems. We introduce these systems by means of simple examples.…
Linear observed systems on manifolds are a special class of nonlinear systems whose state spaces are smooth manifolds but possess properties similar to linear systems. Such properties can be characterized by preintegration and exact…
This paper studies the robustness of observability of a linear time-invariant system under sensor failures from a computational perspective. To be precise, the problem of determining the minimum number of sensors whose removal can destroy…
Predicting observables in equilibrium states is a central yet notoriously hard question in quantum many-body systems. In the physically relevant thermodynamic limit, certain mathematical formulations of this task have even been shown to…
The relationship between different dissipativity concepts for linear time-varying systems is studied, in particular between port-Hamiltonian systems, passive systems, and systems with nonnegative supply. It is shown that linear time-varying…
This paper deals with the problem of control of partially known nonlinear systems, which have an open-loop stable equilibrium, but we would like to add a PI controller to regulate its behavior around another operating point. Our main…
The anisotropic and heterogeneous $N$-dimensional wave equation, controlled and observed at the boundary, is considered as a port-Hamiltonian system. A recent structure-preserving mixed Galerkin method is applied, leading directly to a…
Electric circuits are usually described by charge- and flux-oriented modified nodal analysis. In this paper, we derive models as port-Hamiltonian systems on several levels: overall systems, multiply coupled systems and systems within…
This paper develops a connection between the asymptotic stability of nonlinear filters and a notion of observability. We consider a general class of hidden Markov models in continuous time with compact signal state space, and call such a…
In this paper, we consider infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems with in-domain actuation by means of an approach based on Stokes-Dirac structures as well as in a framework that exploits an underlying jet-bundle structure. In both…
Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS) and interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) have achieved broad success in modelling and stabilisation of physical systems. However, the absence of a dedicated scalar potential…
We define observability and detectability for linear switching systems as the possibility of reconstructing and respectively of asymptotically reconstructing the hybrid state of the system from the knowledge of the output for a suitable…
For a quantum Hamiltonian H =H(p) the observability of the energies E may be robust (whenever all E are real at all p) or, otherwise, conditional. Using a pseudo-Hermitian family of N-state chain models H we discuss some generic properties…
The objective of the paper is to investigate the approximate controllability property of a linear stochastic control system with values in a separable real Hilbert space. In a first step we prove the existence and uniqueness for the…
In this paper, we investigate multidimensional first-order quasi-linear systems and find necessary conditions for them to admit Hamiltonian formulation. The insufficiency of the conditions is related to the Poisson cohomology of the…
The geometric approach to mechanics based on the Jacobi metric allows to easily construct natural mechanical systems which are integrable (actually separable) at a fixed value of the energy. The aim of the present paper is to investigate…
Port-Hamiltonian systems provide an energy-based formulation with a model class that is closed under structure preserving interconnection. For continuous-time systems these interconnections are constructed by geometric objects called Dirac…
We give insight in the structure of port-Hamiltonian systems as control systems in between two closed Hamiltonian systems. Using the language of category theory, we identify systems with their behavioural representation and view a…
This paper deals with the systematic development of structure-preserving approximations for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations on networks. The class includes, for example, gas pipe network systems described by barotropic…