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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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Abdullah Shahin , Hannes Gernandt , Anton Plietzsch , Johannes Schiffer

We employ a port-Hamiltonian approach to model nonlinear rigid multibody systems subject to both position and velocity constraints. Our formulation accommodates Cartesian and redundant coordinates, respectively, and captures kinematic as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Thomas Berger , René Hochdahl , Timo Reis , Robert Seifried

The modeling framework of port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems and their use in numerical simulation and control are discussed. The structure is ideal for automated network-based modeling since it is invariant under power-conserving…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Volker Mehrmann , Benjamin Unger

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

We consider nonlinear electrical circuits for which we derive a port-Hamiltonian formulation. After recalling a framework for nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems, we model each circuit component as an individual port-Hamiltonian system. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Hannes Gernandt , Frédéric Haller , Timo Reis Arjan van der Schaft

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 modeling framework of port-Hamiltonian systems is systematically extended to constrained dynamical systems (descriptor systems, differential-algebraic equations). A new algebraically and geometrically defined system structure is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Christopher Beattie , Volker Mehrmann , Hongguo Xu , Hans Zwart

In this paper we present a method for the addition of integral action to non-passive outputs of a class of port-Hamiltonian systems. The proposed integral controller is a dynamic extension, constructed from the open loop system, such that…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Joel Ferguson , Alejandro Donaire , Richard H. Middleton

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Karim Cherifi , Pawan Goyal , Peter Benner

We extend the modeling framework of port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems to include under- and over-determined systems and arbitrary differentiable Hamiltonian functions. This structure is associated with a Dirac structure that encloses its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Volker Mehrmann , Riccardo Morandin

In this paper, we investigate a class of port-Hamiltonian systems with singular vector fields. We show that, under suitable conditions, their interconnection with passive systems ensures convergence to a prescribed non-equilibrium steady…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Henrik Sandberg , Kamil Hassan , Heng Wu

The structure of continuous Hopfield networks is revisited from a system-theoretic point of view. After adopting a novel electrical network interpretation involving nonlinear capacitors, it is shown that Hopfield networks admit a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Arjan van der Schaft

In the present work we formally extend the theory of port-Hamiltonian systems to include random perturbations. In particular, suitably choosing the space of flow and effort variables we will show how several elements coming from possibly…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Francesco Cordoni , Luca Di Persio , Riccardo Muradore

In this paper, we study the identification problem of a passive system from tangential interpolation data. We present a simple construction approach based on the Mayo-Antoulas generalized realization theory that automatically yields a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Peter Benner , Pawan Goyal , Paul Van Dooren

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

The relationship between port-Hamiltonian and positive real descriptor systems is investigated. It is well-known that port-Hamiltonian systems are positive real, but the converse implication does not always hold. In [K. Cherifi, H.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Delin Chu , Volker Mehrmann

We provide a fully nonlinear port-Hamiltonian formulation for discrete elastodynamical systems as well as a structure-preserving time discretization. The governing equations are obtained in a variational manner and represent index-1…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Philipp L. Kinon , Tobias Thoma , Peter Betsch , Paul Kotyczka

Port-Hamiltonian systems result from port-based network modeling of physical systems and are an important example of passive state-space systems. In this paper, we develop the framework for model reduction of large-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Serkan Gugercin , Rostyslav V. Polyuga , Christopher Beattie , Arjan van der Schaft

We present a new method for the identification of linear time-invariant passive systems from noisy frequency response data. In particular, we propose to fit a parametrized port-Hamiltonian (pH) system, which is automatically passive, to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Paul Schwerdtner

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Karim Cherifi , Hannes Gernandt , Dorothea Hinsen , Volker Mehrmann