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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

Embedding non-restrictive prior knowledge, such as energy conservation laws, into learning methods is a key motive to construct physically consistent dynamics models from limited data, relevant for, e.g., model-based control. Recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jan-Hendrik Ewering , Robin E. Herrmann , Niklas Wahlström , Thomas B. Schön , Thomas Seel

Port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems are a very important modeling tool in almost all areas of systems and control, in particular in network based model of multi-physics multi-scale systems. They lead to remarkably robust models that can be easily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Karim Cherifi , Volker Mehrmann , Kamel Hariche

In this paper we present a unifying geometric and compositional framework for modeling complex physical network dynamics as port-Hamiltonian systems on open graphs. Basic idea is to associate with the incidence matrix of the graph a Dirac…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-07 A. J. van der Schaft , B. M. Maschke

This paper investigates a distributed formation tracking control law for large-scale networks of mechanical systems. In particular, the formation network is represented by a directed communication graph with leaders and followers, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 N. Javanmardi , P. Borja , M. J. Yazdanpanah , J. M. A. Scherpen

Controlling large-scale cyber-physical systems necessitates optimal distributed policies, relying solely on local real-time data and limited communication with neighboring agents. However, finding optimal controllers remains challenging,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Muhammad Zakwan , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

In this letter, we study the energy-optimal control of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems in discrete time. For continuous-time pH systems, energy-optimal control problems are strictly dissipative by design. This property, stating that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Arijit Sarkar , Vaibhav Kumar Singh , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

Many dynamical systems -- from robots interacting with their surroundings to large-scale multiphysics systems -- involve a number of interacting subsystems. Toward the objective of learning composite models of such systems from data, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Cyrus Neary , Ufuk Topcu

We develop inductive biases for the machine learning of complex physical systems based on the port-Hamiltonian formalism. To satisfy by construction the principles of thermodynamics in the learned physics (conservation of energy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quercus Hernández , Alberto Badías , Francisco Chinesta , Elías Cueto

Port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems provide a framework for modeling, analysis and control of complex dynamical systems, where the complexity might result from multi-physical couplings, non-trivial domains and diverse nonlinearities. A major…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Philipp L. Kinon , Tobias Thoma , Peter Betsch , Paul Kotyczka

The dynamics of information diffusion within graphs is a critical open issue that heavily influences graph representation learning, especially when considering long-range propagation. This calls for principled approaches that control and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Simon Heilig , Alessio Gravina , Alessandro Trenta , Claudio Gallicchio , Davide Bacciu

In this paper, we consider linear boundary port-Hamiltonian distributed parameter systems on a time-varying spatial domain. We derive the specific time-varying Dirac structure that these systems give rise to and use it to formally establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 T. J. Meijer , A. Das , S. Weiland

A port-Hamiltonian (pH) system formulation is a geometrical notion used to formulate conservation laws for various physical systems. The distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian formulation models infinite dimensional Hamiltonian dynamical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-15 N. Kumar , J. J. W. van der Vegt , H. J. Zwart

This work extends previous 1D irreversible port-Hamiltonian system (IPHS) formulations to boundary-controlled ND distributed parameter systems describing conduction-diffusion fluid phenomena. Within a unified and thermodynamically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Luis Mora , Yann Le Gorrec , Hector Ramirez , Denis Matignon

A framework for identifying nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems using input-state-output data is introduced. The framework utilizes neural networks' universal approximation capacity to effectively represent complex dynamics in a structured…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Karim Cherifi , Achraf El Messaoudi , Hannes Gernandt , Marco Roschkowski

This paper introduces a novel distributed optimization technique for networked systems, which removes the dependency on specific parameter choices, notably the learning rate. Traditional parameter selection strategies in distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Rodrigo Aldana-López , Alessandro Macchelli , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Rosario Aragüés , Carlos Sagüés

The port-Hamiltonian formulation is a powerful method for modeling and interconnecting systems of different natures. In this paper, the port-Hamiltonian formulation in tensorial form of a thick plate described by the Mindlin-Reissner model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

The port-Hamiltonian framework is a structure-preserving modeling approach that preserves key physical properties such as energy conservation and dissipation. When subsystems are modeled as port-Hamiltonian systems (pHS) with linearly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Matthias Ehrhardt , Michael Günther , Daniel Ševčovič

We develop two local energy methods for distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems on one-dimensional spatial domains. The methods are applied to derive a characterization of exponential stability directly in terms of the energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Marco Roschkowski , Hannes Gernandt

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