A comparison of second-order model order reduction methods for an artificial fishtail

Abstract

Abstract In order to apply control theory in small autonomous vehicles, mathematical models with small numbers of states are required for using the limited computational power in embedded programming. In this paper, we consider an artificial fishtail as an example for a complex mechanical system with a second-order large-scale model, which is derived by using the finite element method. To meet the above limitations, the several hundreds of thousands of degrees of freedom need to be reduced to merely a handful of surrogate degrees of freedom. We seek to achieve this task by various second-order model order reduction methods. All methods are applied on the fishtail’s matrices and their results are evaluated and compared in the frequency domain as well as in the time domain.