Detecting a Time-Varying Behavior in Frequency Response Function Measurements

This paper provides data-driven tools to detect and quantify approximately the influence of the time variation of a system under test in classical frequency response function (FRF) measurements. To achieve this, the best linear time-invariant approximation of a linear time-varying system is defined and is estimated using existing FRF estimators. An analysis of the residuals of the latter estimation reveals the frequency band in which the contributions from the time variation dominates the disturbing measurement noise and, thus, is significant. All concepts are illustrated on a simulation and real measurement examples.

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