System identification
System identification strategies applied to aircraft gas turbine engines

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Abstract

A variety of system identification techniques are applied to the derivation of models of aircraft gas turbine dynamics. The motivation behind the study is to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of system identification techniques currently used in the industry. Four system identification approaches are outlined in this paper. They are based upon: identification using ambient noise only data, multisine testing and frequency-domain identification, time-varying models estimated using extended least squares with optimal smoothing, and multiobjective genetic programming to select model structure.

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