Balanced truncation of k-positive systems

DOI10.1109/TAC.2021.3075319MaRDI QIDQ6343587arXivFDO

Authors Christian Grussler, Tobias Damm, Rodolphe Sepulchre

Publication date 23 June 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2021.3075319

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

System structure simplification (93B11) Linear systems in control theory (93C05) Positive control/observation systems (93C28) Discrete-time control/observation systems (93C55)

arXiv classification

math.OC

Abstract: This paper considers balanced truncation of discrete-time Hankel $k$-positive systems, characterized by Hankel matrices whose minors up to order $k$ are nonnegative. Our main result shows that if the truncated system has order $k$ or less, then it is Hankel totally positive ($infty$-positive), meaning that it is a sum of first order lags. This result can be understood as a bridge between two known results: the property that the first-order truncation of a positive system is positive ($k=1$), and the property that balanced truncation preserves state-space symmetry. It provides a broad class of systems where balanced truncation is guaranteed to result in a minimal internally positive system.

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