Soft Computing Approach for Model Order Reduction of Linear Time Invariant Systems

Most of the physical systems can be represented by mathematical models. The mathematical procedure of system modeling often leads to a comprehensive description of a process in the form of higher-order differential equations which are difficult to use either for analysis or for controller synthesis. It is, therefore, useful and sometimes necessary to find the possibility of some equations of the same type but of lower order that may be considered to adequately reflect almost all essential characteristics of the system under consideration. This paper proposes a new method for order reduction of higher-order linear time invariant systems based on stability equation method and particle swarm optimization algorithm. Reduced-order model will definitely be stable if the original model is stable. The superiority of the proposed method is illustrated by numerical examples of single-input, single-output systems and multiple-input and multiple-output systems. The results are compared with well-known methods available in the literature.