A model order reduction technique based on balanced truncation method and artificial neural networks

This paper presents a framework for model order reduction based on Balanced Truncation (BT) method and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). As social, architectural and technical models are witnessing rapid complexity increase, it has become essential to find solutions to obtain a lower complex version of models while still preserving the model integrity. The main idea of the proposed framework is to reduce uncertainty by cascading two different Model Order Reduction (MOR) approaches, the BT technique and the Jordan Recurrent Neural Network (JRNN). The reduced model obtained by the JRNN network is estimated using the Instrument Variable (IV) estimation approach. Finally, the BT reduced model and the estimated JRNN reduced model are cascaded to obtain the final reduced order version of the original plant. The cascading procedure takes the powerfulness of both techniques and present them in a single system capable to compensate for possible errors and uncertainties. Simulation results prove the efficiency of the proposed framework in terms of the deduction strength and the integrity level.