  Novel constructions of empirical controllability and observability gramians
for nonlinear systems for subsequent use in a balanced truncation style of
model reduction are proposed. The new gramians are based on a generalisation of
the fundamental solution for a Linear Time-Varying system. Relationships
between the given gramians for nonlinear systems and the standard gramians for
both Linear Time-Invariant and Linear Time-Varying systems are established as
well as relationships to prior constructions proposed for empirical gramians.
Application of the new gramians is illustrated through a sample test-system.
