Equivalence and identifiability analysis of uncontrolled nonlinear dynamical systems

  • Authors:
  • Lilianne Denis-Vidal;Ghislaine Joly-Blanchard

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sciences and Technology Lille, UFR Math(M2), Villeneuve d'Ascq 59655, France;Department of GI, University of Technology Compiégne, BP 529, 60205 Compiégne, France

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The problem of parameter identifiability has been considered from different points of view in the case of nonlinear dynamical systems. For analytic systems the standard approach for uncontrolled systems is the Taylor series approach (Pohjanpalo, Math. Biosciences 41 (1978) 21), or the approaches based on differential algebra for polynomial and rational systems. The similarity transformation approach, based on the local state isomorphism theorem, gives a sufficient and necessary condition for global identifiability of nonlinear controlled systems. But it leads only to a necessary condition for identifiability in the case of some uncontrolled systems. Our contribution consists in using the equivalence of systems, based on the straightening out theorem, to analyse the identifiability of uncontrolled systems. From this theory, we state the necessary or sufficient identifiability conditions, some of them depending on the state variable dimension.