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The control system of industrial robots is often model-based, and the quality of the model of high importance. Therefore, a fast and easy-to-use process for finding the model parameters from a combination of prior knowledge and measurement data is required. It has been shown that the experiment design can be improved in terms of short experiment times and an accurate parameter estimate if the robot configurations for the identification experiments are selected carefully. Estimates of the information matrix can be generated based on simulations for a number of candidate configurations, and an optimization problem can be solved for finding the optimal configurations. This work shows that the proposed method for improved experiment design works with a real manipulator, i.e. it is demonstrated that the experiment time is reduced significantly and the accuracy of the parameter estimate can be maintained or reduced if experiments are conducted only in the optimal manipulator configurations. It is also shown that the model improvement is relevant for realizing accurate control. Finally, the experimental data reveals that, in order to further improve the model accuracy, a more advanced model structure is needed for taking into account the commonly present nonlinear transmission stiffness of the robotic joints.

For accurate control of industrial robots, a fast and easy-to-use method to estimate the model parameters based on experimental data is desired. This publication is about optimal experiment design in terms of short experiment times and an accurate parameter estimate. An optimization problem that is based on information matrices is solved for finding the optimal robot configurations for the identification experiment. A simulation study shows that the experiment time can be reduced significantly and the accuracy of the parameter estimate can be increased if experiments are conducted only in the optimal manipulator configurations. Furthermore, it is shown that a realistic estimate of the uncertainty in the frequency response function is crucial for successful experiment design.

This paper addresses the problem of change detection for a quadcopter in the presence ofwind disturbances. Different aspects of the quadcopter dynamics and various flight conditions have beeninvestigated. First, the wind is modeled using the Dryden wind model as a sum of a low-frequent and aturbulent part. Since the closed-loop control can compensate for system changes and disturbances andthe effect of the wind disturbance is significant, the residuals obtained from a standard simulation modelcan be misleading. Instead, a sensor-to-sensor submodel of the quadcopter is selected to detect a changein the payload using the Instrumental Variables (IV) cost function. It is shown that the mass variationcan be detected using the IV cost function in different flight scenarios.

This paper concerns the estimation of a dynamic model from two measured signals when it is not clear which signal should be used as input to the model. In this case, both a forward and an inverse model can be estimated. Here, a basic instrumental variable approach is used and it is shown that the forward and inverse model estimators give identical parameter estimates provided that corresponding model structures have been used. Furthermore, it is shown that this scenario occurs when properties of a quadcopter are estimated from accelerometer and gyro signals and, hence, that it does not matter which signal is used as input.

In this paper, an approach to estimate the mass of a quadcopter using only inertial measurements and pilot commands is presented. For this purpose, a lateral dynamic model describing the relation between the roll rate and the lateral acceleration is formulated. Due to the quadcopter’s inherent instability, a controller is used to stabilize the system and the data is collected in closed loop. Under the effect of feedback and disturbances, the inertial measurements used as input and output are correlated with the disturbances, which complicates the parameter estimation. The parameters of the model are estimated using several methods. The simulation and experimental results show that the instrumental-variable method has the best potential to estimate the mass of the quadcopter in this setup.

In this work, we estimate a model of the vertical dynamics of a quadcopter and explain how this model can be used for mass estimation and diagnosis of system changes. First, a standard thrust model describing the relation between the calculated control signals of the rotors and the thrust that is commonly used in literature is estimated. The estimation results are compared to those using a refined thrust model and it turns out that the refined model gives a significant improvement. The combination of a nonlinear model and closed-loop data poses some challenges and it is shown that an instrumental variables approach can be used to obtain accurate estimates. Furthermore, we show that the refined model opens up for fault detection of the quadcopter. More specifically, this model can be used for mass estimation and also for diagnosis of other parameters that might vary between and during missions.

A ship's roll dynamics is very sensitive to changes in the loading conditions and a worst-case scenario is the loss of stability.  This paper proposes an approach for online estimation of a ship's mass and center of mass. Instead of focusing on a sensor-rich environment where all possible signals on a ship can be measured and a complete model of the ship can be estimated, a minimal approach is adopted. A model of the roll dynamics is derived from a well-established model in literature and it is assumed that only motion measurements from an inertial measurement unit together with measurements of the rudder angle are available. Furthermore, identifiability properties and disturbance characteristics of the model are presented. Due to the properties of the model, the parameters are estimated with an iterative instrumental variable approach to mitigate the influence of the disturbances and it uses multiple datasets simultaneously to overcome identifiability issues. Finally, a simulation study is presented to investigate the sensitivity to the initial conditions and it is shown that there is a low sensitivity for the desired parameters.

A ship's roll dynamics is very sensitive to changes in the loading conditions and a worst-case scenario is the loss of stability.  This paper proposes an approach for online estimation of a ship's mass and center of mass. Instead of focusing on a sensor-rich environment where all possible signals on a ship can be measured and a complete model of the ship can be estimated, a minimal approach is adopted. A model of the roll dynamics is derived from a well-established model in literature and it is assumed that only motion measurements from an inertial measurement unit together with measurements of the rudder angle are available. Furthermore, identifiability properties and disturbance characteristics of the model are presented. Due to the properties of the model, the parameters are estimated with an iterative instrumental variable approach to mitigate the influence of the disturbances and it uses multiple datasets simultaneously to overcome identifiability issues. Finally, a simulation study is presented to investigate the sensitivity to the initial conditions and it is shown that the sensitivity is low for the desired parameters.

This paper concerns the estimation of approximate (linear) inverse models of block-oriented systems and the presented results give an improved understanding of these approximations. The estimated inverse is intended to be used as a pre- or postdistorter of the original system and a good inverse model would thus be one that, when used in series with the original system, produces a signal that resembles the original input. An inverse model of a nonlinear system can either be estimated in the standard way (from input to output) and then inverted, or directly (from output to input). This choice will affect the model. In the general case, the two modeling approaches will lead to different models, which will be shown for Hammerstein and Wiener systems. However, for a noise-free Hammerstein system with a white Gaussian input, the two approaches will result in the same model, up to a constant. When the two models are not equal, and the goal is to use the inverse as described above, it can be beneficial to estimate an approximate inverse directly. It will also be illustrated in an example how the inverse estimate can be used to get a nonparametric estimate of the nonlinearity in a block-oriented system.