What does continuous-time model identification have to offer?

Abstract Direct identification of continuous-time models from sampled data is now mature. The developed methods have proven successful in many practical applications and are available as user-friendly and computationally efficient algorithms in the CAPTAIN and CONTSID toolboxes for Matlab ™ . Surprisingly many practitioners appear unaware that such methods not only exist but may be better suited to their modelling problems. This paper discusses and illustrates with the help of real-life data the advantages of these direct schemes to continuous-time model identification.

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