Parametric Model Order Reduction via Balanced Truncation with Taylor Series Representation

This paper presents a new method for parametric model order reduction based on balanced truncation. Parametric model order reduction seeks to generate low-order models from larger models without losing the dependence on a parameter. Using a Taylor expansion of the original system, a Taylor expansion of the balanced system can be obtained. In contrast to interpolation-based approaches for the solution of the parametric model order reduction problem, the proposed approach permits calculation of the reduced system as well as the corresponding projection matrix for different parameter values with reduced computation power. This bypasses the problem of incompatible subspaces from different snapshot points potentially occurring in interpolation based approaches that can lead to unexpected behavior up to instability. The presented method can handle multidimensional parameter spaces. Sufficient conditions for the convergence of the Taylor series of the balanced system based on holomorphic functions are derived. The truncation step as well as error bounds are discussed. A Bernoulli beam model is used as an example to demonstrate the performance of the technique.