Decoupling of non-linear bond-graph models

The aim of this paper is to study the structure of nonlinear bond-graph models for solving the input-output decoupling problem. First a graphical procedure is proposed for the analysis of the LTV models and then a technique for determining the decoupling matrices using the bond-graph representation of the system is introduced. In the second part the decoupling problem for nonlinear models is solved by using the variational bond-graph model.