Identification of Additive Continuous-time Systems in Open and Closed loop

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel method for identifying additive continuous-time systems in open and closed-loop configurations, emphasizing interpretability and consistency, with demonstrated effectiveness through simulations and experimental data.

Contribution

It proposes a new identification approach that yields additive models for continuous-time systems, applicable to both open and closed-loop scenarios, and capable of handling marginally stable systems.

Findings

Estimators are shown to be generically consistent.

Method effectively identifies modal representations of systems.

Numerical and experimental results validate the approach.

Abstract

When identifying electrical, mechanical, or biological systems, parametric continuous-time identification methods can lead to interpretable and parsimonious models when the model structure aligns with the physical properties of the system. Traditional linear system identification may not consider the most parsimonious model when relying solely on unfactored transfer functions, which typically result from standard direct approaches. This paper presents a novel identification method that delivers additive models for both open and closed-loop setups. The estimators that are derived are shown to be generically consistent, and can admit the identification of marginally stable additive systems. Numerical simulations show the efficacy of the proposed approach, and its performance in identifying a modal representation of a flexible beam is verified using experimental data.