Order reduction and determination of dominant state variables of nonlinear systems

Abstract

The method presented can simplify nonlinear system models by reducing the number of state equations. Starting from a special state space representation, the main idea is to take over all nonlinear terms into the reduced system and to renew all couplings of state variables, input variables and nonlinear functions. The steady state performance can be influenced by additional measures which are discussed in detail and which are illustrated by a technical example. A dominance analysis is introduced which helps choosing the system order and the dominant state variables. All computations are based on proven algorithms and most of them are free of iterations.

Keywords:

• dominance analysis
• model simplification
• order reduction