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An EM Algorithm for Lebesgue-sampled State-space Continuous-time System Identification

Systems and Control 2023-04-10 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

This paper concerns the identification of continuous-time systems in state-space form that are subject to Lebesgue sampling. Contrary to equidistant (Riemann) sampling, Lebesgue sampling consists of taking measurements of a continuous-time signal whenever it crosses fixed and regularly partitioned thresholds. The knowledge of the intersample behavior of the output data is exploited in this work to derive an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for parameter estimation of the state-space and noise covariance matrices. For this purpose, we use the incremental discrete-time equivalent of the system, which leads to EM iterations of the continuous-time state-space matrices that can be computed by standard filtering and smoothing procedures. The effectiveness of the identification method is tested via Monte Carlo simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2304.03314,
  title  = {An EM Algorithm for Lebesgue-sampled State-space Continuous-time System Identification},
  author = {Rodrigo A. González and Angel L. Cedeño and María Coronel and Juan C. Agüero and Cristian R. Rojas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.03314},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures

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