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Real physical systems are dissipative -- a pendulum slows, a circuit loses charge to heat -- and forecasting their dynamics from partial observations is a central challenge in scientific machine learning. We address the \emph{position-only}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shubham Bhardwaj , Chandrajit Bajaj

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 (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

Hybrid machine learning based on Hamiltonian formulations has recently been successfully demonstrated for simple mechanical systems, both energy conserving and not energy conserving. We introduce a pseudo-Hamiltonian formulation that is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Sølve Eidnes , Alexander J. Stasik , Camilla Sterud , Eivind Bøhn , Signe Riemer-Sørensen

The relationship between different dissipativity concepts for linear time-varying systems is studied, in particular between port-Hamiltonian systems, passive systems, and systems with nonnegative supply. It is shown that linear time-varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Karim Cherifi , Hannes Gernandt , Dorothea Hinsen , Volker Mehrmann , Riccardo Morandin

We propose the multistep port-Hamiltonian Gaussian process (MS-PHS GP) to learn physically consistent continuous-time dynamics and a posterior over the Hamiltonian from noisy, irregularly-sampled trajectories. By placing a GP prior on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chi Ho Leung , Philip E. Paré

The control of large-scale cyber-physical systems requires optimal distributed policies relying solely on limited communication with neighboring agents. However, computing stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems while optimizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Muhammad Zakwan , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

It is well known that any port-Hamiltonian (pH) system is passive, and conversely, any minimal and stable passive system has a pH representation. Nevertheless, this equivalence is only concerned with the input-output mapping but not with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Tobias Holicki , Jonas Nicodemus , Paul Schwerdtner , Benjamin Unger

Port-Hamiltonian neural networks (pHNNs) are emerging as a powerful modeling tool that integrates physical laws with deep learning techniques. While most research has focused on modeling the entire dynamics of interconnected systems, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 G. J. E. van Otterdijk , S. Moradi , S. Weiland , R. Tóth , N. O. Jaensson , M. Schoukens

In this paper we propose a novel neural network model for learning stochastic Hamiltonian systems (SHSs) from observational data, termed the stochastic generating function neural network (SGFNN). SGFNN preserves symplectic structure of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Chen Chen , Lijin Wang , Yanzhao Cao , Xupeng Cheng

In this paper, we consider linear time-invariant continuous control systems which are bounded real, also known as scattering passive. Our main theoretical contribution is to show the equivalence between such systems and port-Hamiltonian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Karim Cherifi , Nicolas Gillis , Punit Sharma

Port-Hamiltonian neural networks have shown promising results in the identification of nonlinear dynamics of complex systems, as their combination of physical principles with data-driven learning allows for accurate modelling. However, due…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 G. J. E. van Otterdijk , S. Weiland , M. Schoukens

The present work address the problem of energy shaping for stochastic port-Hamiltonian system. Energy shaping is a powerful technique that allows to systematically find feedback law to shape the Hamiltonian of a controlled system so that,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Francesco G. Cordoni , Luca Di Persio , Riccardo Muradore

In this paper, a stochastic Hamiltonian formulation (SHF) is proposed and applied to dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations. As an extension of Hamiltonian dynamics to stochastic dissipative systems, the SHF provides necessary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Linyu Peng , Noriyoshi Arai , Kenji Yasuoka

Switching physical systems are ubiquitous in modern control applications, for instance, locomotion behavior of robots and animals, power converters with switches and diodes. The dynamics and switching conditions are often hard to obtain or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Thomas Beckers , Tom Z. Jiahao , George J. Pappas

We construct optimally robust port-Hamiltonian realizations of a given rational transfer function that represents a passive system. We show that the realization with a maximal passivity radius is a normalized port-Hamiltonian one. Its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Volker Mehrmann , Paul Van Dooren

In this paper, we present finite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian system (PHS) models of a gas pipeline and a network comprising several pipelines for the purpose of control design and stability analysis. Starting from the partial differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Albertus J. Malan , Lukas Rausche , Felix Strehle , Sören Hohmann

Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS) theory is a recent but already well-established modelling approach for non-linear physical systems. Some studies have shown lately that PHS frameworks are relevant for modelling and control of swarm and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-09 Antoine Tordeux , Claudia Totzeck

We propose Symplectic Recurrent Neural Networks (SRNNs) as learning algorithms that capture the dynamics of physical systems from observed trajectories. An SRNN models the Hamiltonian function of the system by a neural network and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Zhengdao Chen , Jianyu Zhang , Martin Arjovsky , Léon Bottou

While Hamiltonian mechanics provides a powerful inductive bias for neural networks modeling dynamical systems, Hamiltonian Neural Networks and their variants often fail to capture complex temporal dynamics spanning multiple timescales. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yaojun Li , Yulong Yang , Christine Allen-Blanchette