Weak energy shaping for stochastic controlled port-Hamiltonian systems

Abstract

The present work address the problem of energy shaping for stochastic port-Hamiltonian system. Energy shaping is a powerful technique that allows to systematically find feedback law to shape the Hamiltonian of a controlled system so that, under a general passivity condition, it converges or tracks a desired configuration. Energy shaping has been recently generalized to consider stochastic port-Hamiltonian system. Nonetheless the resulting theory presents several limitation in the application so that relevant examples, such as the additive noise case, are immediately ruled out from the possible application of energy shaping. The current paper continues the investigation of the properties of a weak notion of passivity for a stochastic system and a consequent weak notion of convergence for the shaped system considered recently by the authors. Such weak notion of passivity is strictly related to the existence and uniqueness of an invariant measure for the system so that the theory developed has a purely probabilistic flavour. We will show how all the relevant results of energy shaping can be recover under the weak setting developed. We will also show how the weak passivity setting considered draw an insightful connection between stochastic port-Hamiltonian systems and infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian system.