Solvability of time-varying infinite-dimensional linear port-Hamiltonian systems

Abstract

Thirty years after the introduction of port-Hamiltonian systems, interest in this system class still remains high among systems and control researchers. Very recently, Jacob and Laasri obtained strong results on the solvability and well-posedness of time-varying linear port-Hamil\-to\-nian systems with boundary control and boundary observation. In this paper, we complement their results by discussing the solvability of linear, infinite-dimensional time-varying port-Hamiltonian systems not necessarily of boundary control type. The theory is illustrated on a system with a delay component in the state dynamics.