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Identifying control-friendly models of nonlinear systems remains one of the major challenges at the intersection of system identification and control. The Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) framework offers a promising solution, but existing…
In this paper, automated generation of linear parameter-varying (LPV) state-space models to embed the dynamical behavior of nonlinear systems is considered, focusing on the trade-off between scheduling complexity and model accuracy and on…
Linear parameter-varying (LPV) models form a powerful model class to analyze and control a (nonlinear) system of interest. Identifying a LPV model of a nonlinear system can be challenging due to the difficulty of selecting the scheduling…
We formulate a Kalman-style realization theory for discrete-time affine LPV systems. By an affine LPV system we mean an LPV system whose matrices are affine functions of the scheduling parameter. In this paper we characterize those…
This paper proposes a new Linear Fractional Transformation (LFT) modeling approach for uncertain Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) multibody systems with parameter-dependent equilibrium. Traditional multibody approaches, which consist in…
Linear parameter-varying (LPV) models form a powerful model class to analyze and control a (nonlinear) system of interest. Identifying an LPV model of a nonlinear system can be challenging due to the difficulty of selecting the scheduling…
This paper focuses on developing a method to obtain an uncertain linear fractional transformation (LFT) system that adequately captures the dynamics of a nonlinear time-invariant system over some desired envelope. First, the nonlinear…
In this paper, a systematic approach is developed to embed the dynamical description of a nonlinear system into a linear parameter-varying (LPV) system representation. Initially, the nonlinear functions in the model representation are…
In this paper, we introduce and study important properties of the transformation of Affine Linear Parameter-Varying (ALPV) state-space representations into Linear Fractional Representations (LFR). More precisely, we show that $(i)$ state…
This paper introduces a systematic approach to synthesize linear parameter-varying (LPV) representations of nonlinear (NL) systems which are described by input affine state-space (SS) representations. The conversion approach results in…
For affine linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems, this paper develops two parameter reduction methods for reducing the dimension of the parameter space. The first method achieves the complexity reduction by transforming the affine LPV…
We present a novel algorithm for reducing the state dimension, i.e. order, of linear parameter varying (LPV) discrete-time state-space (SS) models with affine dependence on the scheduling variable. The input-output behavior of the reduced…
In this paper, an automated Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) model conversion approach is proposed for nonlinear dynamical systems. The proposed method achieves global embedding of the original nonlinear behavior of the system by leveraging…
The Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) framework provides a modeling and control design toolchain to address nonlinear (NL) system behavior via linear surrogate models. Despite major research effort on LPV data-driven modeling, a key…
This paper deals with the certification problem for robust quadratic stability, robust state convergence, and robust quadratic performance of linear systems that exhibit bounded rates of variation in their parameters. We consider both…
The paper makes the first steps towards a behavioral theory of LPV state-space representations with an affine dependency on scheduling, by characterizing minimality of such state-space representations. It is shown that minimality is…
We propose a model reduction method for LPV systems. We consider LPV state-space representations with an affine dependence on the scheduling variables. The main idea behind the proposed method is to compute the reduced order model in such a…
Different representations to describe noise processes and finding connections or equivalence between them have been part of active research for decades, in particular for linear time-invariant case. In this paper the linear…
Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems with piecewise differentiable parameters is a class of LPV systems for which no proper analysis conditions have been obtained so far. To fill this gap, we propose an approach based on the theory of…
In this paper we present a Kalman-style realization theory for linear parameter-varying state-space representations whose matrices depend on the scheduling variables in an affine way (abbreviated as LPV-SSA representations). We deal both…