IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.46, No.10, 1584-1589, 2001
Performance-optimized applied identification of separable distributed-parameter processes
This note studies practical algorithms for parametric identification of cross-directional processes from input/output data. Instead of working directly with the original two-dimensional array of the high-resolution profile scans, the proposed algorithms use separation properties of the problem. It is demonstrated that by estimating and identifying in turn cross-directional and time responses of the process, it is possible to obtain unbiased least-square error estimates of the model parameters. At each step, a single data sequence is used for identification which ensures high computational performance of the proposed algorithm. A theoretical proof of algorithm convergence is presented. The discussed algorithms are implemented in an industrial identification tool and this note includes a real-life example using paper machine data.