Optimal simultaneous excitation for identification of multivariable systems

Sammanfattning: Having a accurate model of a system is essential for many applications today, especially those related to advanced process control. When executing a project often a lot of time is spent performing experiments on the real system to estimate a model. By designing higher quality experiments the time needed to estimate and identify these models can be reduced saving both resources and engineering efforts. This masters thesis investigates optimal input design to minimize the time needed to identify a linear time-invariant multivariable system fulfilling certain requirements on the model accuracy. Previous input designs mostly focused on sequential excitation but here the effects of using combined simultaneous and sequential excitation is investigated. The design is performed in simulations and evaluated in closed loop using a model predictive controller to further guarantee that the output constraints are not violated. The results indicate that there are many cases where using combined simultaneous and sequential excitation outperforms the previous methods. The effects of the color of the noise on the input design is investigated and the ability of different designs to estimate system delay is also studied. In addition it is shown how an iterative scheme can be used to guarantee that the accuracy requirements on the estimated model are met.