Nonlinear observability in the structural dynamic identification

Jiaqiang Pan; Rong Wang

doi:10.1117/12.598061

17 May 2005 Nonlinear observability in the structural dynamic identification

Jiaqiang Pan, Rong Wang

Proceedings Volume 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.598061
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

System identification and damage detection for structural dynamic systems have received more and more attention in recent years. One of the time domain methodologies, the extended Kalman filter (EKF), has been widely applied in identifying the states and parameters of dynamic systems simultaneously. In EKF algorithm, the original dynamic systems have been transformed into nonlinear state-space system models. Therefore, the observability problem of the nonlinear state-space systems is required to be investigated before the application of EKF algorithm. In this paper, the definitions and the rank criterion of nonlinear observability for continuous-time systems are presented, which are only discussed in a few areas involved nonlinear systems previously. The analysis on the nonlinear observability of SISO and SIMO state-space structure-systems show that the rank criterion presented can provide sufficient conditions for the observability of the nonlinear systems to be identified. In practice, this criterion gives out a theoretical guideline for the selection of appropriate sensor types and locations before putting up the system identification, which is quite important but neglected in most of the EKF-identification literature thus far.

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Jiaqiang Pan and Rong Wang "Nonlinear observability in the structural dynamic identification", Proc. SPIE 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, (17 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.598061

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