93D20 Asymptotic stability
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- dissipative Hamiltonian system (2)
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- switched positive systems (1)
We study linear dissipative Hamiltonian (DH) systems with real constant coefficients that arise in energy based modeling of dynamical
systems. In this paper we analyze when such a system is on the boundary
of the region of asymptotic stability, i.e., when it has purely imaginary eigenvalues,
or how much the dissipation term has to be perturbed to be on this boundary. For unstructured systems the explicit construction of the \emph{real distance to instability (real stability radius)} has been a challenging problem. In this paper, we analyze this real distance under different structured perturbations to the dissipation term that preserve the DH structure and we derive explicit formulas for this distance in terms of low rank perturbations. We also show (via numerical examples) that under real structured perturbations to the dissipation the asymptotical
stability of a DH system is much more robust than for unstructured perturbations.
Dissipative Hamiltonian (DH) systems are an important concept in energy based modeling of dynamical
systems. One of the major advantages of the DH formulation is that the system encodes system
properties in an algebraic way in the system. Making use of the structure,
it is easy to see that DH systems are stable. In this paper
the question is discussed when a linear constant coefficient DH system is on the boundary
of the region of asymptotic stability, i.e., when it has purely imaginary eigenvalues,
or how much it has to be perturbed to be on this boundary. For unstructured systems this distance to instability (stability radius) is well-understood. In this paper,
explicit formulas for this distance under structure preserving perturbations are determined.
It is also shown (via numerical examples) that under structured perturbations the asymptotical
stability of a DH system is much more robust than for unstructured perturbations, since the
distance can be much larger.
In this paper we consider structure-preserving model reduction of
second-order systems using a~ba\-lan\-ced truncation approach.
Several sets of singular values are introduced for such systems,
which lead to different concepts of balancing and different
second-order balanced truncation methods. We compare the
properties of these methods on numerical examples.
In this paper, we discuss stability properties of positive descriptor systems in the continuous-time as well as in the discrete-time case. We present different characterisations of positivity and establish generalised stability criteria for the case of positive descriptor systems. We show that if the spectral projector onto the right finite deflating subspace of the matrix pair $(E,A)$ is non-negative, then all stability criteria for standard positive systems take a comparably simple form in the positive descriptor case. Furthermore, we provide sufficient conditions that guarantee entry-wise non-negativity along with positive semi-definiteness of solutions of generalised projected Lyapunov equations. As an application of the framework established throughout this paper, we exemplarily generalise two criteria for the stability of two switched standard positive systems under arbitrary switching to the descriptor case.