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In this article we present a novel discrete-time design approach which reduces the deteriorating effects of sampling on stability and performance in digitally controlled nonlinear mechanical systems. The method is motivated by recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Paul Kotyczka , Tobias Thoma

Dynamical systems can be used to model a broad class of physical processes, and conservation laws give rise to system properties like passivity or port-Hamiltonian structure. An important problem in practical applications is to steer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Tobias Breiten , Attila Karsai

This paper offers a geometric framework for modeling port-Hamiltonian systems on discrete manifolds. The simplicial Dirac structure, capturing the topological laws of the system, is defined in terms of primal and dual cochains related by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-30 Marko Seslija , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Arjan van der Schaft

Implicit representations of finite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems are studied from the perspective of their use in numerical simulation and control design. Implicit representations arise when a system is modeled in Cartesian…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Fernando Castaños , Hannah Michalska , Dmitry Gromov , Vincent Hayward

Respecting the laws of thermodynamics is crucial for ensuring that numerical simulations of dynamical systems deliver physically relevant results. In this paper, we construct a structure-preserving and thermodynamically consistent finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

The 2-step staggered (also called leap-frog) time discretisation of linear 2nd-order Hamiltonian systems (typically linear elastodynamics in a stress-velocity form) is extended for a 3-step staggered discretisation applicable for systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tomas Roubicek , Christos Panagiotopoulos , Chrysoula Tsogka

In this work we propose a new, arbitrary order space-time finite element discretisation for Hamiltonian PDEs in multisymplectic formulation. We show that the new method which is obtained by using both continuous and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Elena Celledoni , James Jackaman

This work proposes a hyper-reduction method for nonlinear parametric dynamical systems characterized by gradient fields such as Hamiltonian systems and gradient flows. The gradient structure is associated with conservation of invariants or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

In this contribution, a finite element scheme to impose mixed boundary conditions without introducing Lagrange multipliers is presented for hyperbolic systems described as port-Hamiltonian systems. The strategy relies on finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 S. D. M. de Jong , A. Brugnoli , R. Rashad , Y. Zhang , S. Stramigioli

We consider finite element discretizations of the Biot's consolidation model in poroelasticity with MINI and stabilized P1-P1 elements. We analyze the convergence of the fully discrete model based on spatial discretization with these types…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco Gaspar , Xiaozhe Hu , Ludmil Zikatanov

In this paper, we are concerned with the stabilization of linear port-Hamiltonian systems of arbitrary order $N \in \mathbb{N}$ on a bounded $1$-dimensional spatial domain $(a,b)$. In order to achieve stabilization, we couple the system to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Jochen Schmid , Hans Zwart

In this paper we propose a novel approach to discretize linear port-Hamiltonian systems while preserving the underlying structure. We present a finite element exterior calculus formulation that is able to mimetically represent conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Stefano Stramigioli

Port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems have been studied extensively for linear continuous-time dynamical systems. This manuscript presents a discrete-time pH descriptor formulation for linear, completely causal, scattering passive dynamical systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karim Cherifi , Hannes Gernandt , Dorothea Hinsen , Volker Mehrmann

In this contribution we present how to obtain explicit state space models in port-Hamiltonian form when a mixed finite element method is applied to a linear mechanical system with non-uniform boundary conditions. The key is to express the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

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

In recent years, nonlinear dynamic system identification using artificial neural networks has garnered attention due to its broad potential applications across science and engineering. However, purely data-driven approaches often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Fabian J. Roth , Dominik K. Klein , Maximilian Kannapinn , Jan Peters , Oliver Weeger

We consider a dynamical elasto-plasticity system with Kelvin--Voigt viscosity and linear kinematic hardening of Melan--Prager type. The model is formulated in a variational framework in which a constraint set for the stress evolves in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Yoshiho Akagawa , Kazunori Matsui

This paper presents a systematic observer design methodology for a class of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems with state-dependent input matrices. Such systems can model a wide range of electromechanical systems, including magnetic levitation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Filippo Ugolini , Ning Liu , Yongxin Wu , Yann Le Gorrec , Alessandro Macchelli

Stability and stabilization of linear port-Hamiltonian systems on infinite-dimensional spaces are investigated. This class is general enough to include models of beams and waves as well as transport and Schr\"odinger equations with boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Björn Augner , Birgit Jacob

A new method is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of an elastic filament. In the standard finite-difference and finite-element formulations the continuum equations of motion are discretized in space and time, but it is then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony JC Ladd , Gaurav Misra