SiMpLIfy: A Toolbox for Structured Model Reduction
It provides a practical tool for engineers working with structured dynamical systems, but the contribution is incremental as it combines existing methods.
The paper presents a MATLAB toolbox for structured model reduction, introducing a subgradient optimization algorithm for this purpose, and demonstrates its applicability on a mass-spring system.
In this paper, we present a toolbox for structured model reduction developed for MATLAB. In addition to structured model reduction methods using balanced realizations of the subsystems, we introduce a numerical algorithm for structured model reduction using a subgradient optimization algorithm. We briefly present the syntax for the toolbox and its features. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of various model reduction methods in the toolbox on a structured mass-spring mechanical system.