Bond Graphs

Description

Bond graph is an explicit graphical tool for capturing the common energy structure of systems. It increases one's insight into systems behavior. In the vector form, they give concise description of complex systems. Moreover, the notations of causality provides a tool not only for formulation of system equations, but also for intuition based discussion of system behavior, viz. controllability, observability, fault diagnosis, etc. In 1959, Prof. H.M.Paynter gave the revolutionary idea of portraying systems in terms of power bonds, connecting the elements of the physical system to the so called junction structures which were manifestations of the constraints. This power exchange portray of a system is called Bond Graph (some refer it as Bondgraph), which can be both power and information oriented. Later on, Bond Graph theory has been further developed by many researchers like Karnopp, Rosenberg, Thoma, Breedveld, etc. who have worked on extending this modeling technique to power...

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