C-SE3 Stability analysis of power networks and power network models
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This article deals with the spectra of Laplacians of weighted graphs. In this context, two objects are of fundamental importance for the dynamics of complex networks: the second eigenvalue of such a spectrum (called algebraic connectivity) and its associated eigenvector, the so-called Fiedler vector. Here we prove that, given a Laplacian matrix, it is possible to perturb the weights of the existing edges in the underlying graph in order to obtain simple eigenvalues and a Fiedler vector composed of only non-zero entries. These structural genericity properties with the constraint of not adding edges in the underlying
graph are stronger than the classical ones, for which arbitrary structural perturbations are allowed. These results open the opportunity to understand the impact of structural changes on the dynamics of complex systems.
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.
Structure-preserving generic low-rank perturbations are studied for classes of structured matrix pencils, including real symmetric, complex symmetric, and complex Hermitian pencils. For singular pencils it is analyzed which characteristic quantities stay invariant in the perturbed canonical form, and it is shown that the regular part of a structured matrix pencil is not affected by generic perturbations of rank one. When the rank one perturbations involve a scaling parameter, the behavior of the canonical forms in dependence of this parameter is analyzed as well.
This paper deals with the effect of generic but structured low rank perturbations on the Jordan structure and sign
characteristic of matrices that have structure in an indefinite inner product space.
The paper is a follow-up of earlier papers in which the effect of rank one perturbations
was considered. Several results that are in contrast to the case of unstructured low rank
perturbations of general matrices are presented here.
An eigenvalue perturbation theory under rank-one perturbations is developed for classes
of real matrices that are symmetric with respect to a non-degenerate bilinear form,
or Hamiltonian with respect to a non-degenerate skew-symmetric form.
In contrast to the case of complex matrices, the sign characteristic is a crucial feature
of matrices in these classes. The behavior of the sign characteristic under generic
rank-one perturbations is analyzed in each of these two classes of matrices.
Partial results are presented, but some questions remain open. Applications
include boundedness and robust boundedness for solutions of structured systems
of linear differential equations with respect to general perturbations as well
as with respect to structured rank perturbations of the coefficients.