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A.J. van der Schaft, S. Rao, B. Jayawardhana, "On the Mathematical Structure of Balanced Chemical Reaction Networks Governed by Mass Action Kinetics ", arXiv:1110.6078v1 [math.OC] , October 27, 2011
A.J. van der Schaft, B. Maschke, " Discrete Conservation Laws and Port-Hamiltonian Systems on Graphs and Complexes ", arXiv:1107.2006v1 [math.OC] , July 12, 2011
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A.J. van der Schaft, R. Polyuga, "Structure-preserving model reduction of complex physical systems ", Proc. 48th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009.
A.J. van der Schaft, M.K. Camlibel, "A state transfer principle for switching port-Hamiltonian systems", Proc. 48th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009.
S. Gugercin, R.V. Polyuga, C.A. Beattie, A.J. van der Schaft, "Interpolation-based H_2 model reduction for port-Hamiltonian systems ", Proc. 48th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009.
D. Jeltsema, A.J. van der Schaft, "Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of transmission line systems with boundary energy flow", Reports on Mathematical Physics, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 55--74, 2009.
F. Castanos, R. Ortega, A.J. van der Schaft, A. Astolfi, "Asymptotic stabilization via control by interconnection of port-Hamiltonian systems", Automatica, vol.45, pp. 1611--1618, 2009.
A.J. van der Schaft, B.M. Maschke, "Conservation Laws and Lumped System Dynamics", Model-Based Control; Bridging Rigorous Theory and Advanced Technology, P.M.J. Van den Hof, C. Scherer, P.S.C. Heuberger, eds., Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-0894-0, pp. 31--48, 2009.
F. Kerber, A.J. van der Schaft, "Compositional and assume-guarantee reasoning for switching linear systems", Proc. 3rd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Zaragoza, Spain, September 16-18, pp. 328--333, 2009.
R. Polyuga, A.J. van der Schaft, "Moment matching for linear port-Hamiltonian systems", Proc. European Control Conference 2009 Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, pp. 4715--4720, 2009.
A.Venkatraman, A.J. van der Schaft, "Energy shaping of port-Hamiltonian systems by using alternate passive outputs", Proc. European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, pp. 2175--2180, 2009.
H. Vinjamoor, A.J. van der Schaft, "On achievable bisimulations for linear time-invariant systems", Proc. European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, pp. 794--801, 2009.
F. Kerber, A.J. van der Schaft, "Assume-guarantee reasoning for linear dynamical systems", Proc. European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, pp. 5015-- 5020, 2009.
R. Ortega, A.J. van der Schaft, F. Castanos, A. Astolfi,
"Control by interconnection and standard passivity-based control of port-Hamiltonian systems",
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol.53, pp. 2527--2542, 2008.
N. Sakamoto, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Analytical approximation methods for the stabilizing solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation",
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol.53, pp. 2335--2350, 2008.
A.J. van der Schaft,
"Balancing of lossless and passive systems",
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol.53, pp. 2153--2157, 2008.
A.A. Julius, J.W. Polderman, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Parametrization of the regular equivalences of the canonical controller",
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
vol.53, pp. 1032--1036, 2008.
A. Venkatraman, R. Ortega, I. Sarras, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Control of underactuated mechanical systems: Observer design and position feedback stabilization',
pp. 4969--4974 Proc. 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2008.
J.M.A. Scherpen, A.J. van der Schaft,
"A structure preserving minimal representation of a nonlinear port-Hamiltonian system",
pp. 4885--4890 Proc. 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2008.
A.J. van der Schaft, B.M. Maschke,
"Conservation laws and open systems on higher-dimensional networks",
pp. 799--804 Proc. 47th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2008.
J. Carrasco, A. Banos, A.J. van der Schaft,
"A passivity approach to reset control of nonlinear systems',
Proc. 34th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON'08),
Orlando, FL, USA, November 10-13, pp. 61--66, 2008.
A. Venkatraman, A.J. van der Schaft,,
"Full-order observer design for a class of port-Hamiltonian systems'
Proc. 18th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
July 28 - August 1, 2008, Blacksburg, VA, USA, pp. .
R. Pasumarthy, V. R. Ambati, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Port-Hamiltonian formulation of shallow water equations with Coriolis forces and topography",
Proc. 18th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
July 28 - August 1, 2008, Blacksburg, VA, USA, pp. 124 --136.
T. Voss, J.M. Scherpen, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Modeling for control of an inflatable space reflector, the linear 1-D case",
Proc. 18th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
July 28 - August 1, 2008, Blacksburg, VA, USA, pp. .
D. Jeltsema, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Symplectic Hamiltonian formulation of transmission line systems with boundary energy flow",
Proc. 18th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
July 28 - August 1, 2008, Blacksburg, VA, USA, pp. .
R. Polyuga, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Structure preserving model reduction of port-Hamiltonian systems",
Proc. 18th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
July 28 - August 1, 2008, Blacksburg, VA, USA, pp. .
I. Sarras, A. Venkatraman, R. Ortega, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Partial linearization of mechanical systems with application to observer design",
Proc. 18th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems,
July 28 - August 1, 2008, Blacksburg, VA, USA, pp. .
N. Sakamoto, A.J. van der Schaft,
"An approximation method for the stabilizing solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for integrable systems, a Hamiltonian perturbation approach",
Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), vol. 43, pp. 572--580, 2007 (SICE Takeda Best Paper Prize 2008.)
D. Eberard, B.M. Maschke, A.J. van der Schaft,
"On the interconnection structures of discretized port Hamiltonian systems",
Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. (PAMM), vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 3030005-3030006, 2007.
D. Eberard, B. Maschke, A.J. van der Schaft, "
An extension of Hamiltonian systems to the thermodynamic space: towards a geometry of non-reversible thermodynamics",
Reports on Mathematical Physics, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 175-198, 2007.
D. Jeltsema, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Pseudo-gradient and Lagrangian boundary control system
formulation of electromagnetic fields'',
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. , vol. 40, pp. 11627-11643, 2007.
R. Pasumarthy, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Achievable Casimirs and its Implications on Control of port-Hamiltonian systems",
Int. J. Control, vol. 80, Issue 9, pp. 1421-1438, 2007.
J. Cervera, A.J. van der Schaft, A. Banos,
"Interconnection of port-Hamiltonian systems and composition of Dirac structures",
Automatica, vol. 43, pp. 212--225, 2007.
D. Eberard, B.M. Maschke and A.J. van der Schaft,
"On the interconnection structures of irreversible physical systems",
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control 2006, F. Bullo and K. Fujimoto eds., Lecture Notes on Control and Information Sciences Series, Vol. 366, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-73889-3 , pp.209-220, 2007.
R. Ortega, A.J. van der Schaft, F. Castanos, A. Astolfi, "Control by (state-modulated) interconnection of port-Hamiltonian systems", Proceedings 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Pretoria, South Africa, August 22--24, pp. 47-54, 2007.
M. Zainea, A.J. van der Schaft, J. Buisson,
"Stabilizing control for power converters connected to transmission lines", Proceedings American Control Conference (ACC), 9-13 July, New York, NY, USA, pp. 3476 -- 3481, 2007.
M. Zainea, A.J. van der Schaft, J. Buisson,
"Stabilizing switching control of power converters: the lossy line and nonlinear case, in the Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, pp. 85-90, 2007.
A.J. van der Schaft,
"On balancing of passive systems",
Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, pp. 4173-4178, 2007.
G. Pola, A.J. van der Schaft, M.D. Di Benedetto,
"Equivalence of switching linear systems by bisimulation",
International Journal of Control, vol. 79, pp.74-92, 2006.
S.N. Strubbe, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Compositional modelling of stochastic hybrid systems", Stochastic Hybrid Systems, eds. C.G. Cassandras, J. Lygeros, CRC Taylor & Francis, Control Engineering Series, pp. 47-77, 2006.
A.J. van der Schaft,
"Port-Hamiltonian systems: an introductory survey",
Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Volume III, Invited Lectures, eds. Marta Sanz-Sole, Javier Soria, Juan Luis Verona, Joan Verdura, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1339-1365, 2006.
S.N. Strubbe, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Communicating Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes",
Stochastic Hybrid Systems: Theory and Safety Critical Applications, eds. Henk Blom, John Lygeros, LNCIS 337, Springer, pp. 63-106, 2006.
G. Blankenstein, R. Ortega, A.J. van der Schaft, "
"Matching in the Method of Controlled Lagrangians and IDA-Passivity Based Control", Nonlinear and Adaptive Control: Tools and Algorithms for the User,Editor A. Astolfi, World Scientific, pp. 79-114, 2006.
N. Sakamoto, A.J. van der Schaft,
"An approximating method for the stabilizing solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for integrable systems using Hamiltonian perturbation theory",
Proc. 45th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, USA, December 13-15, pp. 5857-5862, 2006.
R. Pasumarthy, A.J. van der Schaft,
"A finite-dimensional approximation of the shallow-water equation: a port-Hamiltonian approach",
Proc. 45th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, USA, December 13-15, pp. 3984-3989, 2006.
S.N. Strubbe, A. J. van der Schaft and A. A. Julius,
"Value passing for Communicating Piecewise Deterministic Markov processes", Proc. American Control Conference, pp.4736-4741, Minneapolis, USA, 2006.
M. Kurula, A.J. van der Schaft, H. Zwart,
"Composition of infinite-dimensional linear Dirac-type structures",
Proc. 17th Int. Symp. Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Kyoto, Japan, July 24-28, pp. 27-32, 2006.
D. Eberard, B.M. Maschke, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Energy-conserving formulation of RLC-circuits with linear resistors",
Proc. 17th Int. Symp. Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Kyoto, Japan, July 24-28, pp. 71-76, 2006.
N.E. Ligterink, P.C. Breedveld, A.J. van der Schaft, "Physical model reduction of interacting, continuous systems",
Proc. 17th Int. Symp. Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Kyoto, Japan, July 24-28, pp. 827-834, 2006.
R. Pasumarthy, A.J. van der Schaft,
"A port-Hamiltonian approach to modeling and interconnections of canal systems",
Proc. 17th Int. Symp. Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Kyoto, Japan, July 24-28, pp. 1436-1443, 2006.
A. Macchelli, R. Pasumarthy, A.J. van der Schaft, "
"Control of port-Hamiltonian systems by interconnection and energy shaping via generation of Casimir functions: an overview", Proceedings 5th MathMod Conference, Eds.: I. Troch, F. Breitenecker; ARGESIM Report no. 30, Vienna, February 2006.
S. Stramigioli, C. Secchi, A.J. van der Schaft, C. Fantuzzi,
"Sampled data systems passivity and discrete port-Hamiltonian systems",
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 4, pp. 574-587, 2005. J. Cortes, A.J. van der Schaft, P.E. Crouch,
"Characterization of gradient control systems",
SIAM J. Control Optim., vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 1192-1214, 2005. S.N. Strubbe, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Bisimulation for communicating piecewise deterministic Markov processes",
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Eds. M. Morari, L. Thiele, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3414, pp. 623-639, Springer, 2005. B.M. Maschke, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Compositional Modelling of Distributed-Parameter Systems",
Advanced Topics in Control Systems Theory, Lecture Notes from FAP 2004, Springer Lect. Notes in Control and Information Sciences 311, pp. 115-154, Springer, London, 2005. A.A. Julius, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Bisimulation as congruence in the behavioral setting",
Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005,
Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, pp. 814-819, 2005. G. Pola, A.J. van der Schaft, M.D. Di Benedetto,
"Achievable bisimilar behavior of abstract state systems"
Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005,
Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, pp. 1535-1540, 2005. J.A. Villegas, H. Zwart, Y. Le Gorrec, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Stability and stabilization of a class of boundary control systems",
Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005,
Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, pp. 3850-3855, 2005. V. Talasila, J. Clemente-Gallardo, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Discrete port-Hamiltonian systems: mixed interconnections",
Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005,
Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, pp. 5656-5661,2005. D. Eberard, B. Maschke, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Port contact systems for irreversible thermodynamical systems",
Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005,
Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, pp. 5977-5982, 2005. S.N. Strubbe, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Stochastic semantics for communicating piecewise deterministic Markov processes",
Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005,
Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, pp. 6103-6108, 2005. S.N. Strubbe, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Algorithmic bisimulation for communicating piecewise deterministic Markov processes",
Proc. 44th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference 2005,
Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, pp. 6109 -6115, 2005. R. Pasumarthy, A. J. van der Schaft,
"Stability and stabilization of mixed lumped and distributed parameter systems,
D. Eberard, B. Maschke, A. J. van der Schaft,
"Systems theory of interconnected port contact systems",
Int. Symp. on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA2005), Bruges, Belgium, October 18-21, 2005. R. Pasumarthy, A. J. van der Schaft,
"On control by interconnection of port Hamiltonian systems",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. S.N. Strubbe, A. J. van der Schaft,
"Stochastic equivalence of CPDP-automata and Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. V. Talasila, J. Clemente-Gallardo, A. J. van der Schaft,
"Discrete Port-Hamiltonian Systems",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. A.A. Julius, J.W. Polderman, A. J. van der Schaft,
"Controller with minimal interaction",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. D. Eberard, B. Maschke, A. J. van der Schaft,
"Conservative systems with ports on contact manifolds",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. B. Maschke, A. J. van der Schaft,
"From conservation laws to port-Hamiltonian representations of distributed-parameter systems",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. A. Macchelli, A. J. van der Schaft, C. Melchiorri,
"Control by interconnection for distributed port Hamiltonian systems",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. J. Villegas, H. Zwart, A. J. van der Schaft,
"Port representations of the telegrapher's equations",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. J. Villegas, Y. Le Gorrec, H. Zwart, A. J. van der Schaft
"Boundary Control Systems and the System Node",
Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005. S.N. Strubbe, A.J. van der Schaft,
"Application of communicating PDPS to air traffic management",
Proceedings American Control Conference (ACC), 2005.