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We consider irreversible and coupled reversible-irreversible nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems and the respective sets of thermodynamic equilibria. In particular, we are concerned with optimal state transitions and output stabilization on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Arjan van der Schaft

Thirty years after the introduction of port-Hamiltonian systems, interest in this system class still remains high among systems and control researchers. Very recently, Jacob and Laasri obtained strong results on the solvability and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Mikael Kurula

Port-Hamiltonian theory is an established way to describe nonlinear physical systems widely used in various fields such as robotics, energy management, and mechanical engineering. This has led to considerable research interest in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Thomas Beckers

Port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems offer a highly structured and energy-based modular framework for control systems. Many pH systems exhibit non-polynomial non-linearities. We consider the problem of immersing such systems into a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Mohammad Itani , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser

Boundary feedback stabilisation of linear port-Hamiltonian systems on an interval is considered. Generation and stability results already known for linear feedback are extended to nonlinear dissipative feedback, both to static feedback…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Björn Augner

We consider networks of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems $\mathfrak{S}_i$ on one-dimensional spatial domains. These subsystems of port-Hamiltonian type are interconnected via boundary control and observation and are allowed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Björn Augner

We investigate the existence of solutions of reversible and irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems. To this end, we utilize the associated exergy, a function that is composed of the system's Hamiltonian and entropy, to prove global existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Willem Esterhuizen , Bernhard Maschke , Till Preuster , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Alexander Warsewa , Michael Böhm , Oliver Sawodny , Cristina Tarín

The new concept of relative generic subsets is introduced. It is shown that the set of controllable linear finite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems is a relative generic subset of the set of all linear finite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Jonas Kirchhoff

The port-Hamiltonian framework is a structure-preserving modeling approach that preserves key physical properties such as energy conservation and dissipation. When subsystems are modeled as port-Hamiltonian systems (pHS) with linearly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Matthias Ehrhardt , Michael Günther , Daniel Ševčovič

We consider the design of structure-preserving discretization methods for the solution of systems of boundary controlled Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) thanks to the port-Hamiltonian formalism. We first provide a novel general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Andrea Brugnoli , Ghislain Haine , Anass Serhani , Xavier Vasseur

This contribution deals with energy-based in-domain control of systems governed by partial differential equations with spatial domain up to dimension two. We exploit a port-Hamiltonian system description based on an underlying jet-bundle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Tobias Malzer , Hubert Rams , Markus Schöberl

The class of port-Hamiltonian systems incorporates many physical models, such as mechanical systems in the finite-dimensional case and wave and beam equations in the infinite-dimensional case. In this paper we study a subclass of linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Birgit Jacob , Hans Zwart

Formulations of open physical systems within the framework of Non-Equilibrium Reversible/Irreversible Coupling (associated with the acronym "GENERIC") is related in this work with state-space realizations that are given as boundary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-13 A. Moses Badlyan , B. Maschke , C. Beattie , V. Mehrmann

We characterize the well-posedness of a class of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems with boundary control and observation. This class includes in particular the Euler-Bernoulli beam equations and more generally 1D linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Bouchra Elghazi , Birgit Jacob , Hans Zwart

In this letter, we study the energy-optimal control of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems in discrete time. For continuous-time pH systems, energy-optimal control problems are strictly dissipative by design. This property, stating that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Arijit Sarkar , Vaibhav Kumar Singh , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

In this paper, we consider nonlinear PDEs in a port-Hamiltonian setting based on an underlying jet-bundle structure. We restrict ourselves to systems with 1-dimensional spatial domain and 2nd-order Hamiltonian including certain dissipation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Tobias Malzer , Hubert Rams , Markus Schöberl

We introduce a new definition of discrete-time port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS), which results from structure-preserving discretization of explicit PHS in time. We discretize the underlying continuous-time Dirac structure with the collocation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Paul Kotyczka , Laurent Lefèvre

In this paper, we consider linear boundary port-Hamiltonian distributed parameter systems on a time-varying spatial domain. We derive the specific time-varying Dirac structure that these systems give rise to and use it to formally establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 T. J. Meijer , A. Das , S. Weiland