Provides valuable insights into the use of test-signal design in system identification Helps the reader to make well-informed choices of signal design for process and communications industries Discusses software packages for designing common classes of signals

Autorentext
Ai Hui Tan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. She graduated with first class honours in Electronic Engineering from the University of Warwick, U.K. in 1999. She was awarded a Ph.D. in 2002 for research done in the Systems Modelling and Simulation Research Group at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Professor Keith Godfrey. Her research focusses on several aspects of system identification, including perturbation signal design and applications. She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing. She was a recipient of IEE Institution Prize 1999.
****Keith Godfrey is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. He has been involved in many applications of system identification, and in 1990, he received the Doctor of Science degree from the University of Warwick for publications with the collective title "Applications of Modelling, Identification and Parameter Estimation in Engineering and Biomedicine". He is author, or co-author, of more than 200 papers and is a member of the IFAC Technical Committees on Biomedical Engineering and Control, and on Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing. He has been presented with several international awards for his work.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Design of Pseudo-Random Signals for Linear System Identification.- Design of Computer-Optimized Signals for Linear System Identification.- Signal Design for Multi-input System Identification.- Signal Design for the Identification of Nonlinear and Time-Varying Systems.- Case Study on the Identification of Direction-Dependent Electronic NoseSystem.- Case Study on the Identification of a Multivariable Cooling System with Time-Varying Delay.- Software for Signal Design.