A Set Membership approach to the identification of linear systems with guaranteed simulation accuracy.

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Date 24.01.2019
Hour 11:1512:15
Speaker Marco Lauricella, Politecnico di Milano
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Category Conferences - Seminars
Abstract: The identification of models of linear systems having guaranteed simulation accuracy is of great importance in all the cases where a model and a measure of its uncertainty are needed for long range prediction or simulation purpose, like in robust Model Predictive Control. In this talk, I will address the problem of model identification for linear systems affected by a bounded additive disturbance, where the bound is unknown, and a finite set of sampled data is available for model identification. The objective is the identification of one-step-ahead models, and the estimation of their accuracy by means of worst-case simulation error bounds, resorting to the Set Membership identification framework. I will present new results that allow to develop a procedure for the estimation of the unknown disturbance bound and of the system decay rate from data. Then, the available data and the estimated disturbance bound are used to define the set of all the possible models that are compatible with data and with the estimated quantities. The estimated decay rate is used to refine the standard Feasible Parameter Set (FPS) formulation, by adding constraints that enforce a converging behavior of the iterated models. Finally, the desired one-step-ahead model is identified by numerical optimization, and the worst-case error bound related to the obtained model is calculated over the available data and FPSs. The performance and the validity of the proposed approach are evaluated over numerical simulations and a real world experimental case study.

Bio: Marco Lauricella received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Automation and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2013 and 2015, respectively. He is currently a PhD Fellow in Information Engineering at the Department of Electronic, Information and Bio-engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research interests include system identification and fault detection, and their applications to electric systems.