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The paper considers the suboptimal H-infinity control problem for a general discrete-time system (whose transfer function matrix is allowed to be improper or polynomial). The parametrization of output feedback controllers is given in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Sebastian F. Tudor , Cristian Oara , Serban Sabau

In this contribution we present an intrinsic description of time-variant Port Hamiltonian systems as they appear in modeling and control theory. This formulation is based on the splitting of the state bundle and the use of appropriate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-14 Markus Schöberl , Kurt Schlacher

Linear time-invariant quadratic output (LTIQO) systems generalize linear time-invariant systems to nonlinear regimes. Problems of this class occur in multiple applications naturally, such as port-Hamiltonian systems, optimal control, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Birgit Hillebrecht , Benjamin Unger

We study a type of port-Hamiltonian system, in which the controller or disturbance is not applied to the flow variables, but to the systems power, a scenario that appears in many practical applications. A suitable framework is provided to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Pooya Monshizadeh , Juan E. Machado , Romeo Ortega , Arjan van der Schaft

In this paper we present a method to robustify energy-shaping controllers for port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems by adding an integral action that rejects unknown additive disturbances. The proposed controller preserves the pH structure and, by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Joel Ferguson , Alejandro Donaire , Romeo Ortega , Richard H. Middleton

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian (PH) modeling, control, and structure-preserving simulation framework for grid-forming static var generators (SVGs). A PH model is established that captures energy exchange among the inductor,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jiaxin Qian , Feng Ji , Sixu Wu , Mingyang Liu , Yifa Tang

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

A structure preserving proper orthogonal decomposition reduce-order modeling approach has been developed in [Gong et al. 2017] for the Hamiltonian system, which uses the traditional framework of Galerkin projection-based model reduction but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Zhu Wang

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

We discuss structure-preserving time discretization for nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems with state-dependent mass matrix. Such systems occur, for instance, in the context of structure-preserving nonlinear model order reduction for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Philipp Schulze

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

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

Adaptive structures are equipped with sensors and actuators to actively counteract external loads such as wind. This can significantly reduce resource consumption and emissions during the life cycle compared to conventional structures. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Manuel Schaller , Amelie Zeller , Michael Böhm , Oliver Sawodny , Cristina Tarín , Karl Worthmann

In this paper, we formulate an optimization-based control-by-interconnection approach to the stabilization problem of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems. Motivated by model predictive control, the feedback is defined as an initial part of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Till Preuster , Hannes Gernandt , Manuel Schaller

Port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems provide a framework for modeling, analysis and control of complex dynamical systems, where the complexity might result from multi-physical couplings, non-trivial domains and diverse nonlinearities. A major…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Philipp L. Kinon , Tobias Thoma , Peter Betsch , Paul Kotyczka

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

The high volatility of renewable energies calls for more energy efficiency. Thus, different physical systems need to be coupled efficiently although they run on various time scales. Here, the port-Hamiltonian (pH) modeling framework comes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Sarah-Alexa Hauschild , Nicole Marheineke

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

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…

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