System Identification

Karel Keesman received his Ph.D. for his work on set-membership identification and prediction of ill-defined systems, with application to a water quality system at the University of Twente in 1989. His main research interests focus on identification, modelling and control of uncertain dynamic systems with a biological component, as bioreactors, environmental and ecological systems, with more than 120 papers in international journals and refereed proceedings. For more than 25 years he is active in the field of system identification, in which he developed and applied identification methods to a wide range of problems.

• Introduction.- Part I: Data-based Identification.- System Response Methods.- Frequency Response Methods.- Correlation Methods.- Part II: Time-invariant Systems Identification.- Static Systems Identification.- Dynamic Systems Identification.- Part III: Time-varying Systems Identification.- Time-varying Static Systems Identification.- Time-varying Dynamic Systems Identification.- Part IV: Model Validation.- Model Validation Techniques.- Part V: Appendices: Matrix Algebra; Statistics; Laplace, Fourier and z-Transforms; Bode Diagrams; Shift Operator Calculus; Recursive Least-squares Derivation; Dissolved Oxygen Data.

From the reviews: "The book presents a systematic overview of the fundamental problems and methods in the modern system identification theory. The material is divided into four parts covering data based non-parametric identification methods, time-invariant system identification, time-varying system identification and model validation problems. ... Each chapter of the book is finished with references, historical notes and exercises to be solved by the reader. ... Numerous examples ... demonstrate the practical applicability of the presented methods. The book can be recommended for students and practitioners for self-study." (Zygmunt Hasiewicz, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1230, 2012)