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Identifiability Analysis of Noise Covariances for LTI Stochastic Systems with Unknown Inputs

Optimization and Control 2022-09-16 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Most existing works on optimal filtering of linear time-invariant (LTI) stochastic systems with arbitrary unknown inputs assume perfect knowledge of the covariances of the noises in the filter design. This is impractical and raises the question of whether and under what conditions one can identify the process and measurement noise covariances (denoted as QQ and RR, respectively) of systems with unknown inputs. This paper considers the identifiability of QQ/RR using the correlation-based measurement difference approach. More specifically, we establish (i) necessary conditions under which QQ and RR can be uniquely jointly identified; (ii) necessary and sufficient conditions under which QQ can be uniquely identified, when RR is known; (iii) necessary conditions under which RR can be uniquely identified, when QQ is known. It will also be shown that for achieving the results mentioned above, the measurement difference approach requires some decoupling conditions for constructing a stationary time series, which are proved to be sufficient for the well-known strong detectability requirements established by Hautus.

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@article{arxiv.2209.07104,
  title  = {Identifiability Analysis of Noise Covariances for LTI Stochastic Systems with Unknown Inputs},
  author = {He Kong and Salah Sukkarieh and Travis J. Arnold and Tianshi Chen and Biqiang Mu and Wei Xing Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.07104},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

formally accepted to and going to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2202.04963