Canonical transformation and stabilization of generalized Hamiltonian systems (Q5940857)

This paper considers generalized Hamiltonian systems and introduces generalized canonical transformations. These transformations convert one generalized Hamiltonian system into another one, and preserve the generalized Hamiltonian structure of the original. The authors extend ordinary generalized Hamiltonian systems into those of the following time-varying form: \[ \dot x= J(x,t){\partial H(x,t)^T\over\partial x}+ g(x,t)u,\qquad y= g^T(x,t) {\partial H(x,t)^T\over\partial x}, \] where \(J(x,t)\) is skew-symmetric. They then provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a time-varying coordinate transformation \(\Phi(x,t)\) to be a (generalized) canonical transformation. The authors show how to stabilize a generalized Hamiltonian system via canonical transformations. Furthermore, they provide two examples of explicit generalized canonical transformations that indicate how such transformations can be used for control systems design.