Date of Award

Spring 1962

Document Type

Thesis - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Electrical Engineering

Abstract

In practice there are several systems whose performance is not satisfactory and hence we would like to modify the system so as to make its performance satisfactory according to some specifications. For this we may have to conduct several experimental tests on the system, which means that we have to disturb the system from its normal operation and this disturbance of the system may continue for a long time, which cannot be allowed due to reasons like incurrence of loss, etc. Also the system cannot continue to operate as it is, due to its poor and inefficient performance, which also incurs loss. Hence it is desirable to have a model, which is almost identical with the system, upon which the required tests may be conducted, thus leaving the system undisturbed. An approximate model of the system may be obtained by several methods, one of which is to obtain the transfer function by conducting the open loop frequency tests on the system. The approximate model so obtained can then be made to be almost identical with the system by means of an adaptive loop, thus resulting in a method of identifying the dynamical system under investigation. Hense the justification for the title of the thesis "Identification of dynamical systems by adjustable parameter continuous models."

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