Practical issues in distributed parameter estimation: Gradient computation and optimal experiment design

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1553-1562

  Point, N ^a   Vande Wouwer, A ^a   Remy, M ^a  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distributed parameter systems; Identification; Numerical methods; Parameter estimation; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; HEAT CONDUCTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

EXPERIMENT DESIGN; GRADIENT COMPUTATION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0030287444     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0661(96)00169-4     Document Type: Article

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