Port-Hamiltonian Methods
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 39
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy-based control; port-Hamiltonian systems; geometric control; distributed parameter systems; robotics
Interests: robotics; control; modelling; port-Hamiltonian systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Port-Hamiltonian (pH) theory emerged around three decades ago, with the idea of modelling and controlling physical dynamical systems in a substantially different way than most of the control system community does. Based on the pillars of physical energy and interconnection of subsystems, the port-Hamiltonian theory offers a systematic framework for the analysis, control and simulation of complex networks of physical systems. This formulation highlights the way energy flows in systems and has been proven to be very successful for lumped-parameter models as well as for distributed-parameter models in any physical domain.
Port-Hamiltonian formulations possess far-reaching properties and have gained extreme popularity in different fields, beyond both the system- and control-theoretic frameworks. For example, mathematicians use port-Hamiltonian formulations to assess the well-posedness of partial differential equations, data scientists and numerical engineers exploit port-Hamiltonian formulations to develop structure-preserving integrators, while physicists acknowledge port-Hamiltonian theory as an insightful extension of Hamiltonian dynamics and are starting to use and extend the formalism to describe quantum systems.
This Special Issue aims to collect papers containing new results and tutorial-like/survey documents which make use of port-Hamiltonian theory at their core.
Dr. Federico Califano
Prof. Dr. Stefano Stramigioli
Dr. Ramy Rashad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- port-Hamiltonian modelling
- port-Hamiltonian control
- boundary control methods for port-Hamiltonian distributed parameter systems
- mathematical methods using port-Hamiltonian formulations
- discretization and numerical methods using port-Hamiltonian framework
- port-Hamiltonian description of multi-physics field theories
- port-Hamiltonian description of quantum systems
- port-based modelling of thermodynamically irreversible processes
- port-based description of entropy creation
- simulations of multi-physics systems using port-Hamiltonian theory
- machine learning methods for identification and control using port-Hamiltonian theory
- applications
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