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Design of multivariable feedback control systems via spectral assignment using reduced-order models and reduced-order observers

The feasibility of using reduced order models and reduced order observers with eigenvalue/eigenvector assignment procedures is investigated. A review of spectral assignment synthesis procedures is presented. Then, a reduced order model which retains essential system characteristics is formulated. A constant state feedback matrix which assigns desired closed loop eigenvalues and approximates specified closed loop eigenvectors is calculated for the reduced order model. It is shown that the eigenvalue and eigenvector assignments made in the reduced order system are retained when the feedback matrix is implemented about the full order system. In addition, those modes and associated eigenvectors which are not included in the reduced order model remain unchanged in the closed loop full order system. The full state feedback design is then implemented by using a reduced order observer. It is shown that the eigenvalue and eigenvector assignments of the closed loop full order system rmain unchanged when a reduced order observer is used. The design procedure is illustrated by an actual design problem.

Mielke, R. R.

Design of multivariable feedback control systems via spectral assignment using reduced-order models and reduced-order observers

The feasibility of using reduced order models and reduced order observers with eigenvalue/eigenvector assignment procedures is investigated. A review of spectral assignment synthesis procedures is presented. Then, a reduced order model which retains essential system characteristics is formulated. A constant state feedback matrix which assigns desired closed loop eigenvalues and approximates specified closed loop eigenvectors is calculated for the reduced order model. It is shown that the eigenvalue and eigenvector assignments made in the reduced order system are retained when the feedback matrix is implemented about the full order system. In addition, those modes and associated eigenvectors which are not included in the reduced order model remain unchanged in the closed loop full order system. The fulll state feedback design is then implemented by using a reduced order observer. It is shown that the eigenvalue and eigenvector assignments of the closed loop full order system remain unchanged when a reduced order observer is used. The design procedure is illustrated by an actual design problem.

Mielke, R. R.

Higher-order LaSDI: Reduced order modeling with multiple time derivatives

Solving complex partial differential equations (PDEs) is essential across scientific disciplines but often requires numerical models that can be prohibitively expensive in time-sensitive applications. Reduced-order models (ROMs) address this challenge by exploiting low-dimensional structure to create fast approximations. The Latent Space Dynamics Identification (LaSDI) framework has demonstrated success in learning ROMs for parameterized PDE families, but remains limited to first-order systems. Here, in this paper, we propose Higher-Order LaSDI (HLaSDI), which extends the LaSDI framework to PDEs with arbitrary order of time derivatives. This generalization significantly expands the applicability of LaSDI-based methods to systems previously outside their scope, including hyperbolic PDEs. We demonstrate HLaSDI’s accuracy and efficiency on several linear and nonlinear benchmark problems.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

Reduced-order Kalman filtering with incomplete observability

Kalman filtering is considered with reference to linear stochastic dynamic systems without complete observability. It is shown that the canonical decomposition theorem can be extended to the stochastic case and the matrix Riccati equation of the Kalman filter is order-reducible if some states are not observable. The inclusion of unobservable states in Kalman filtering makes the unobservable states 'asymptotically' observable in the filter if these unobservable states are dynamically connected to observable states and asymptotically stable. The reduced-order Kalman filter saves computation time when compared to the conventional Kalman filter.

Yonezawa, K.

An Optimization-Based Coupling of Reduced Order Models with an Efficient Reduced Adjoint Basis Generation Approach

Optimization-based coupling (OBC) is an attractive alternative to traditional Lagrange multiplier approaches in multiple modeling and simulation contexts. However, application of OBC to time-dependent problems has been hindered by the computational cost of finding the stationary points of the associated Lagrangian, which requires primal and adjoint solves. This issue can be mitigated by using OBC in conjunction with computationally efficient reduced order models (ROMs). To demonstrate the potential of this combination, in this paper, we develop an optimization-based ROM-ROM coupling for a transient advection-diffusion transmission problem. We pursue the “optimize-then-reduce” path toward solving the minimization problem at each time step and solve reduced space adjoint system of equations, where the main challenge in this formulation is the generation of adjoint snapshots and reduced bases for the adjoint systems required by the optimizer. One of the main contributions of the paper is a new technique for an efficient adjoint snapshot collection for gradient-based optimizers in the context of optimization-based ROM-ROM couplings. In conclusion, we present numerical studies demonstrating the accuracy of the approach along with comparison between various approaches for selecting a reduced order basis for the adjoint systems, including decay of snapshot energy, average iteration counts, and timings.

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Adaptive tracking for complex systems using reduced-order models

Reduced-order models are considered in the context of parameter adaptive controllers for tracking workspace trajectories. A dual-arm manipulation task is used to illustrate the methodology and provide simulation results. A parameter adaptive controller is designed to track the desired position trajectory of a payload using a four-parameter model instead of a full-order, nine-parameter model. Several simulations with different payload-to-arm mass ratios are used to illustrate the capabilities of the reduced-order model in tracking the desired trajectory.

Carignan, Craig R.

Adaptive tracking for complex systems using reduced-order models

Reduced-order models are considered in the context of parameter adaptive controllers for tracking workspace trajectories. A dual-arm manipulation task is used to illustrate the methodology and provide simulation results. A parameter adaptive controller is designed to track a payload trajectory using a four-parameter model instead of the full-order, nine-parameter model. Several simulations with different payload-to-arm mass ratios are used to illustrate the capabilities of the reduced-order model in tracking the desired trajectory.

Carnigan, Craig R.

Quantifying Emergent Fluid Dynamics Using Reynolds-Interpolated Fluid Reduced-order Models

Fluid reduced-order models (ROMs) which capture the flow physics within the problem's physical domain are usually constrained in accuracy to only the parameter points, e.g. Reynolds and Mach numbers, at which reference data was provided. Interpolation-focused quantity-of-interest ROMs are often structured differently and fail to provide flow volume data with the same quality - if at all. In this paper, techniques which reside at the intersection of these two ROM schools - flow physics ROMs which can be interpolated within a parameter space of interest - are explored. Using a combination of existing and novel techniques, emergent physics are identified using a fluid ROM at parameter points which are not provided in the ROM's training data.

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Quantifying Emergent Fluid Dynamics Using Reynolds-Interpolated Fluid Reduced-order Models

Fluid reduced-order models (ROMs) which capture the flow physics within the problem's physical domain are usually constrained in accuracy to only the parameter points, e.g. Reynolds and Mach numbers, at which reference data was provided. Interpolation-focused quantity-of-interest ROMs are often structured differently and fail to provide flow volume data with the same quality - if at all. In this paper, techniques which reside at the intersection of these two ROM schools - flow physics ROMs which can be interpolated within a parameter space of interest - are explored. Using a combination of existing and novel techniques, emergent physics are identified using a fluid ROM at parameter points which are not provided in the ROM's training data.

uncertainty quantification

Achieving High Efficiency in Reduced Order Modeling for Large Scale Polycrystal Plasticity Simulations

Reduced order models for the nonlinear response of heterogeneous microstructures typically require a construction (or training) stage to build the reduced order basis. In this manuscript, an efficient model construction strategy for the eigenstrain homogenization method (EHM) is presented. The proposed strategy relies on a parallel, element-by-element, conjugate gradient solver. Near linear scaling has been achieved with respect to the number of degrees of freedom used to resolve the microstructure. Linear scaling with respect to the number of pre-analyses required to construct the reduced order model (ROM) follows from the EHM formulation. Furthermore, a parallel implementation for fast evaluation of the constructed ROM has been developed using shared memory parallelization. It has been shown that for large microstructures with ≈ 10,000 grains, the total computational cost of evaluating the nonlinear response of a polycrystal could be reduced by approximately an order of magnitude using 32 cores with respect to serial ROM simulation. The present methodology has been verified using an additively manufactured polycrystalline microstructure of a nickel-based superalloy, Inconel 625. The capability of the developed framework to construct a ROM for such large microstructures, as well as the ability of the ROM to predict average and local quantities of interest has been demonstrated.

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Reduced order adaptive controller studies

The use of a reduced-order adaptive controller, can arise from a desire to reduce control complexity with a commensurate reduction in controller sensitivity or from necessity in an attempt to use a finite dimensional controller on an infinite dimensional system. An interest in developing adaptive controllers for flexible structures by application of existing lumped-parameter system (LPS) adaptive controller strategies to truncated expansion descriptions of the distributed parameter system (DPS) behavior of flexible structures has led to two qualitative descriptions of the misbehavior of reduced-order adaptive controllers. A summary is provided of these interpretations of the additional difficulties facing reduced-order adaptive controllers, which are bypassed by exact-order adaptive controllers. A test problem, which initializes attempts to quantify the qualitative insights, is also formulated.

Johnson, C. R., Jr.

Stochastic Reduced Order Models with Python (SROMPy)

Stochastic Reduced Order Models with Python (SROMPy) is a software package developed to enable user-friendly utilization of the stochastic reduced order model (SROM) approach for uncertainty quantification. A SROM is a low dimensional, discrete approximation to a random quantity that enables efficient and non-intrusive stochastic computations. With SROMPy, a user can easily generate a SROM to approximate a random variable or vector described by several different types of probability distributions using the Python programming language. Once a SROM is constructed, the software can be used to propagate uncertainty through a user-defined computational model to estimate statistics of a given quantity of interest. This report is meant to introduce the SROMPy module and brie y demonstrate its capabilities. A simple example of a spring-mass system with a random input is included to illustrate the practicality of the SROM approach to uncertainty quantification and relative ease of applying it with SROMPy. The example includes a comparison with a solution obtained using classical Monte Carlo simulation, demonstrating the similarities and advantages of using the SROM approach.

Warner, James E.

Nonlinear Acoustic Response of an Aircraft Fuselage Sidewall Structure by a Reduced-Order Analysis

A reduced-order nonlinear analysis of a structurally complex aircraft fuselage sidewall panel is undertaken to explore issues associated with application of such analyses to practical structures. Of primary interest is the trade-off between computational efficiency and accuracy. An approach to modal basis selection is offered based upon the modal participation in the linear regime. The nonlinear static response to a uniform pressure loading and nonlinear random response to a uniformly distributed acoustic loading are computed. Comparisons of the static response with a nonlinear static solution in physical degrees-of-freedom demonstrate the efficacy of the approach taken for modal basis selection. Changes in the modal participation as a function of static and random loading levels suggest a means for improvement in the basis selection.

Przekop, Adam

Reduced-Order Modeling and Parameter Identification of Wind Tunnel Measurement Systems

We present a method to develop a physics-based, reduced-order model of a wind tunnel measurement system (including a sting, strain gage force balance, and test article) that can be used to predict the dynamics of the system. This reduced-order model is combined with a simple finite element beam model of a sting to estimate the dynamics of the full assembly. We make comparisons between a full finite element model and the hybrid reduced-order model to show that this hybrid reduced-order model is capable of predicting the first six natural frequencies to within 10% error. This technique could be used to identify reduced-order parameters for a large number of balances and stings, which could then be used to estimate the dynamics of different measurement assemblies.

Reduced-order Modeling

Reduced-Order Modeling and Parameter Identification of Wind Tunnel Measurement Systems

We present a method to develop a physics-based, reduced-order model of a wind tunnel measurement system (including a sting, strain gage force balance, and test article) that can be used to predict the dynamics of the system. This reduced-order model is combined with a simple finite element beam model of a sting to estimate the dynamics of the full assembly. We make comparisons between a full finite element model and the hybrid reduced-order model to show that this hybrid reduced-order model is capable of predicting the first six natural frequencies to within 10% error. This technique could be used to identify reduced-order parameters for a large number of balances and stings, which could then be used to estimate the dynamics of different measurement assemblies.

Reduced-order Modeling

Minimum-variance reduced-order estimation algorithms from Pontrygin's minimum principle

A uniform derivation of minimum-variance reduced-order (MVRO) filter-smoother algorithms from Pontrygin's Minimum Principle is presented. An appropriate performance index for a general class of reduced order estimation problem is formulated herein to yield optimal results over the entire time interval of estimation. These results provide quantitative criteria for measuring the performance of certain classes of heuristically designed, suboptimal reduced-order estimators as well as explicit guidance to the suboptimal filter design process with both continuous and discrete filter-smoother algorithms being considered. By the duality principle, the algorithms of reduced-order estimation can be easily extended to the deterministic problems of optimal control (i.e., the regulator and linear tracking problem).

Ebrahimi, Yaghoob S.

A Scalable Reduced‐Order Model for the Steady Navier–Stokes Equations

Scaling up new scientific technologies from laboratory to industry often involves demonstrating performance on a larger scale. Computer simulations can accelerate design and predictions in the deployment process, though traditional numerical methods are computationally intractable even for intermediate pilot plant scales. Recently, the component reduced order modeling method has been developed to tackle this challenge by combining projection reduced order modeling and discontinuous Galerkin domain decomposition. However, while many scientific or engineering applications involve nonlinear physics, this method has only been demonstrated for various linear systems. In this work, the component reduced order modeling method is extended to steady Navier–Stokes flow, with application to general nonlinear physics in view. The large‐scale, global domain is decomposed into a combination of small‐scale unit component. Linear subspaces for flow velocity and pressure are identified via proper orthogonal decomposition over sample snapshots collected from each small‐scale unit component. Velocity bases are augmented with a pressure supremizer to satisfy the inf–sup condition for stable pressure prediction. Two different nonlinear reduced order modeling methods are employed and compared for efficient evaluation of nonlinear advection: A third‐order tensor projection operator and the empirical quadrature procedure. The proposed method is demonstrated on the flow over arrays of five different unit objects, achieving a 23‐fold speedup with less than 4% relative error in domains up to 256 times larger than the unit components. Furthermore, a numerical experiment with the pressure supremizer strongly indicates the need for a supremizer for stable pressure prediction. A comparison between the tensorial approach and the empirical quadrature procedure revealed a slight advantage of the empirical quadrature procedure. The framework is compared with an alternating Schwarz‐based reduced‐order approach, demonstrating improved efficiency and robustness for the DG‐based global solver while retaining flexibility for sub‐scale iterative solvers. The method is further extended to a coupled advection–diffusion and Navier–Stokes system, illustrating its applicability to multi‐physics problems and its potential for more general, inter‐coupled nonlinear systems.

42 ENGINEERING

A consistent model reduction of measured modal parameters for reduced-order active control

The problem of synthesizing reduced-order linear models of vibrating structures for the design of fixed-order dynamic feedback control is investigated. The present technique builds on a recently developed procedure for constructing an objective set of mass and stiffness matrices from measured modal parameters that are akin to the Craig-Bampton synthesized ones obtained from finite element models. The constructed mass and stiffness matrices are determined directly from the identification of experimental data, however, rather than through correlation or reconciliation of a finite element model. A model truncation criterion is then applied to the identified minimum-order mass and stiffness model to satisfy certain observability/controllability requirements for the reduced model. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique for synthesizing reduced-order controllers from system realizations of experimental data. The dynamic performance of the resulting closed-loop models is assessed using the known full-order structural dynamics and compared with existing model reduction techniques.

Alvin, K. F.