Masters Thesis

Proposal Defence

WASEEM TARIQ (MS-79)

2/14/17
 DEVELOPMENT OF AN
IMPROVED FREQUENCY
WEIGHTED MODEL ORDER
REDUCTION TECHNIQUE
Supervisor:
DR. MUWAHIDA LIAQUAT
Co-Supervisor:
DR. MUHAMMAD IMRAN (MCS,
NUST)

GEC Members:
DR. FAHAD MUMTAZ MALIK
DR. USMAN ALI
 MOTIVATION
Mathematical modelling - large order models.
Long simulation time and large memory.
Model reduction gives a reduced order model that
approximates the original system, preserving
essential properties like stability and passivity.
In many applications, we want the approximation
to be more accurate in certain frequency intervals
than others.
This motivates Frequency Weighted Model Order
Reduction
 PROBLEM STATEMENT

To develop a Frequency Weighted

Model Order Reduction technique that
guarantees passivity of Reduced Order
Models in case of two sided
weightings.
 Passivity
Passive system - only consumes energy but does not
produce
it, incapable of power gain.
A system is passive if its transfer function is positive real.
Positive Real Lemma
G(s)= {A,B,C,D} is positive-real if and only if there exist
matrices P, J and K such that the Lure equations

are satisfied, and P0.

For a passive system, Nyquist plot should lie entirely in the
right half of complex plane.
Why preserve passivity?
Stable but not passive reduced order
model may give unstable or non-
passive system when connected to
other stable systems.
Passivity implies stability, but not
vice versa.
 Passivity Preserving
Frequency Weighted Model
Order Reduction Techniques
Heydari and Pedram [1] and Muda [2] extended
the concepts of stability preserving techniques
to guarantee passivity of reduced order
models.
Recently, Muda has pointed out that none of
the existing techniques guarantee passivity in
case of two sided weightings.
Therefore, a technique needs to be developed
that guarantees the passivity of reduced order
models.
[1] P. Heydari and M. Pedram, Model-order reduction using variational balanced
truncation with spectral shaping, Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE
Transactions on, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 879891,2006.
[2] W. M. W. Muda, V. Sreeram, and H. H.-C. Lu, Passivity-preserving frequency weighted
model order reduction techniques for general largescale rlc sytems, in 2010 11th
 Numerical Example
Consider
a 6th order system modeled by
3 RLC sections as shown in the figure
below

Values of the parameters are =10,

=0.1, =0.1H and =0.015F. Let the
input and output weighting functions be
Nyquist Plot of 1st order model
 Drawback of Existing Passivity
Preserving Techniques
Lure equation of transformed system

Lure equation of reduced order model

Controllability and observability Gramians of the

transformed system are neither diagonal nor block
diagonal. So, reduced order model does not satisfy
Lure equations.
 Future Work

Develop a method that transforms the

original system in such a way that
controllability and observability
Gramians are always block diagonal
and the reduced order models
obtained satisfy Lure Equations.
QUESTIONS?