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This paper considers the estimation of the parameters of a linear discrete-time system from noise-perturbed input and output measurements. The conditions imposed on the system are fairly general. In particular, the input and output noises are allowed to be auto-correlated and they may be cross-correlated as well. The proposed method makes use of an instrumental variable (IV)-vector to produce a covariance matrix that is pre- and postmultiplied by some prechosen weights. The singular vectors of the so-obtained matrix possess complete information on the system parameters. A weighted subspace fitting (WSF) method is then applied to the aforementioned singular vectors to consistently estimate the parameters of the system. The IV-WSF technique suggested herein is noniterative and easy to implement, and has a small computational burden. The asymptotic distribution of its estimation errors is derived and the result is used to motivate the choice of the weighting matrix in the WSF step and also to predict the estimation accuracy. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the performance achievable by the method.
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This work has been supported by the Swedish Research Council of Engineering Sciences under contract 93-669 and by the Göran Gustafsson Foundation.
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Cedervall, M., Stoica, P. System identification from noisy measurements by using instrumental variables and subspace fitting. Circuits Systems and Signal Process 15, 275–290 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01183780
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