Model Reduction of Multi-Dimensional and Uncertain Systems

We present model reduction methods with guaranteed error bounds for systems represented by a Linear Fractional Transformation (LFT) on a repeated scalar uncertainty structure. These reduction methods can be interpreted either as doing state order reduction for multi-dimensionalsystems, or as uncertainty simplification in the case of uncertain systems, and are based on finding solutions to a pair of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs). A related necessary and sufficient condition for the exact reducibility of stable uncertain systems is also presented

Balanced truncation model reduction of periodic systems

The balanced truncation approach to model reduction is considered for linear discrete-time periodic systems with time-varying dimensions. Stability of the reduced model is proved and a guaranteed additive bound is derived for the approximation error. These results represent generalizations of the corresponding ones for standard discrete-time systems. Two numerically reliable methods to compute reduced order models using the balanced truncation approach are considered. The square-root method and the potentially more accurate balancing-free square-root method belong to the family of methods with guaranteed enhanced computational accuracy. The key numerical computation in both methods is the determination of the Cholesky factors of the periodic Gramian matrices by solving nonnegative periodic Lyapunov equations with time-varying dimensions directly for the Cholesky factors of the solutions

Balanced truncation for linear switched systems

In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of the model reduction algorithm for linear switched systems. This algorithm is a reminiscence of the balanced truncation method for linear parameter varying systems. Specifically in this paper, we provide a bound on the approximation error in L2 norm for continuous-time and l2 norm for discrete-time linear switched systems. We provide a system theoretic interpretation of grammians and their singular values. Furthermore, we show that the performance of bal- anced truncation depends only on the input-output map and not on the choice of the state-space representation. For a class of stable discrete-time linear switched systems (so called strongly stable systems), we define nice controllability and nice observability grammians, which are genuinely related to reachability and controllability of switched systems. In addition, we show that quadratic stability and LMI estimates of the L2 and l2 gains depend only on the input-output map.Comment: We have corrected a number of typos and inconsistencies. In addition, we added new results in Theorem