Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 8 (1995), Issue 3, Pages 249-260
doi:10.1155/S1048953395000220

Identification of linear stochastic systems based on partial information

N. U. Ahmed1 and S. M. Radaideh2

1University of Ottawa, Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Mathematic, Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
2University of Ottawa, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

Received 1 October 1994; Revised 1 May 1995

Copyright © 1995 N. U. Ahmed and S. M. Radaideh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider an identification problem for a system of partially observed linear stochastic differential equations. We present a result whereby one can determine all the system parameters including the covariance matrices of the noise processes. We formulate the original identification problem as a deterministic control problem and prove the equivalence of the two problems. The method of simulated annealing is used to develop a computational algorithm for identifying the unknown parameters from the available observation. The procedure is then illustrated by some examples.