Daniel Jannik Happ | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Feedback approaches for set-point stabilization of interacting particle systems

We explore the problem of asymptotically stabilizing a class of interacting particle systems to a prescribed particle configuration with zero velocity. The class of interacting particle systems is motivated by the Cucker-Smale model on the mean-field level. Rather than designing a feedback by manually solving an IDA-PBC matching equation, we derive a feedback using an instantaneous rolling horizon control algorithm. We show that this feedback preserves the port-Hamiltonian structure of the interacting particle system and therefore allows for an interpretation in the IDA-PBC framework. Additionally, the energy balance of the closed-loop Hamiltonian provides an important tool to prove convergence of the particles' velocities and interaction forces in discrete and continuous time. If the control operator is surjective, we additionally prove convergence of the particle positions to the prescribed configuration.

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arXiv2026

Erratum and original of Port-Hamiltonian structure of interacting particle systems and its mean-field limit

We derive a minimal port-Hamiltonian formulation of a general class of interacting particle systems driven by alignment and potential-based force dynamics which include the Cucker-Smale model with potential interaction and the second order Kuramoto model. The port-Hamiltonian structure allows to characterize conserved quantities such as Casimir functions as well as the long-time behaviour using a LaSalle-type argument on the particle level. It is then shown that the port-Hamiltonian structure is preserved in the mean-field limit and an analogue of the LaSalle invariance principle is studied in the space of probability measures equipped with the 2-Wasserstein-metric. The results on the particle and mean-field limit yield a new perspective on uniform stability of general interacting particle systems. Moreover, as the minimal port-Hamiltonian formulation is closed we identify the ports of the subsystems which admit generalized mass-spring-damper structure modelling the binary interaction of two particles. Using the information of ports we discuss the coupling of difference species in a port-Hamiltonian preserving manner. The erratum corrects an error in our paper on the port-Hamiltonian structure of interacting particle systems. While convergence of the gradient of the Hamiltonian remains valid under the original assumptions, relative compactness of the system trajectories in the 2-Wasserstein space does not hold without an additional attractivity assumption on the binary interaction force. We provide a proof for the convergence of the gradient of the Hamiltonian based on Barbalat Lemma. A counterexample is given for the relative compactness of the system trajectories for repulsive binary interactions. In the case of short-range repulsion and long-range attraction we show several numerical studies that underpin our conjecture of relatively compact trajectories.

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