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This study concerns the development of a data-based compact model for the prediction of the fluid temperature evolution in district heating (DH) pipeline networks. This so-called "reduced-order model" (ROM) is obtained from reduction of the…
We introduce a reduced order model (ROM) methodology for inverse electromagnetic wave scattering in layered lossy media, using data gathered by an antenna which generates a probing wave and measures the time resolved reflected wave. We…
Even with the most advanced computational capabilities, high-fidelity (e.g., large-eddy) simulations of large-scale rocket engines remain far out of reach. In the current work, we develop and establish a component-based reduced-order…
In this work we perform full-state LQR feedback control of fluid flows using non-intrusive data-driven reduced-order models. We propose a model reduction method called low-rank Dynamic Mode Decomposition (lrDMD) that solves for a…
This paper presents an online walking synthesis methodology to enable dynamic and stable walking on constrained footholds for underactuated bipedal robots. Our approach modulates the change of angular momentum about the foot-ground contact…
In this paper, we propose hybrid data-driven ROM closures for fluid flows. These new ROM closures combine two fundamentally different strategies: (i) purely data-driven ROM closures, both for the velocity and the pressure; and (ii)…
Reduced-order models (ROMs) are essential for rapid simulation of complex biomechanical systems and for bridging the gap between high fidelity models and clinical application. However, ROMs for tissue growth and remodeling (G&R) remain…
This paper aims to develop distributed feedback control algorithms that allow cooperative locomotion of quadrupedal robots which are coupled to each other by holonomic constraints. These constraints can arise from collaborative manipulation…
Piecewise-linear nonlinear systems appear in many engineering disciplines. Prediction of the dynamic behavior of such systems is of great importance from practical and theoretical viewpoint. In this paper, a data-driven model order…
In this paper, we propose a new evolve-then-filter reduced order model (EF-ROM). This is a regularized ROM (Reg-ROM), which aims at the numerical stabilization of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) ROMs for convection-dominated flows. We…
We perform a theoretical and numerical investigation of the time-average of energy exchange among modes of Reduced Order Models (ROMs) of fluid flows. We are interested in the statistical equilibrium problem, and especially in the possible…
Locomotion of legged machines faces the problems of model complexity and computational costs. Algorithms based on complex models and/or reinforcement learning exist to solve the walking control task. In this project, we aim to develop a…
This paper deals with model order reduction of parametrical dynamical systems. We consider the specific setup where the distribution of the system's trajectories is unknown but the following two sources of information are available:…
Reduced order modeling (ROM) is a field of techniques that approximates complex physics-based models of real-world processes by inexpensive surrogates that capture important dynamical characteristics with a smaller number of degrees of…
Given a set of solution snapshots of a hyperbolic PDE, we are interested in learning a reduced order model (ROM). To this end, we propose a novel decompose then learn approach. We decompose the solution by expressing it as a composition of…
Humanoid robots have great potential for real-world applications due to their ability to operate in environments built for humans, but their deployment is hindered by the challenge of controlling their underlying high-dimensional nonlinear…
We present a numerical methodology for construction of reduced order models, ROMs, of fluid flows through the combination of flow modal decomposition and regression analysis. Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition, SPOD, is applied to…
Underactuation is ubiquitous in human locomotion and should be ubiquitous in bipedal robotic locomotion as well. This chapter presents a coherent theory for the design of feedback controllers that achieve stable walking gaits in…
The long runtime of high-fidelity partial differential equation (PDE) solvers makes them unsuitable for time-critical applications. We propose to accelerate PDE solvers using reduced-order modeling (ROM). Whereas prior ROM approaches reduce…
Deep learning-based reduced order models (DL-ROMs) have been recently proposed to overcome common limitations shared by conventional reduced order models (ROMs) - built, e.g., through proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) - when applied to…