RIK PINTELON, PhD, serves as a full-time professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the ELEC Department. He has been a Fellow of IEEE since 1998 and is the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement (IEEE Technical Field Award).

JOHAN SCHOUKENS, PhD, serves as a full-time professor in the ELEC Department at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has been a Fellow of IEEE since 1997 and was the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award.

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

List of Operators and Notational Conventions

List of Symbols

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Identification

Chapter 2 Measurement of Frequency Response Functions - Standard Solutions

Chapter 3 Frequency Response Function Measurements in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortions

Chapter 4 Detection, Quantification, and Qualification of Nonlinear Distortions in FRF Measurements

Chapter 5 Design of Excitation Signals

Chapter 6 Models of Linear Time-Invariant Systems

Chapter 7 Measurement of Frequency Response Functions - The Local Polynomial Approach

Chapter 8 An Intuitive Introduction to Frequency Domain Identification

Chapter 9 Estimation with Know Noise Model

Chapter 10 Estimation with Unknown Noise Model - Standard Solutions

Chapter 11 Model Selection and Validation

Chapter 12 Estimation with Unknown Noise Model - The Local Polynomial Approach

Chapter 13 Basic Choices in System Identification

Chapter 14 Guidelines for the User

Chapter 15 Some Linear Algebra Fundamentals

Chapter 16 Some Probability and Stochastic Convergence Fundamentals

Chapter 17 Properties of Least Squares Estimators with Deterministic Weighting

Chapter 18 Properties of Least Squares Estimators with Stochastic Weighting

Chapter 19 Identification of Semilinear Models

Chapter 20 Identification of Invariants of (Over) Parameterized Models

References

Subject Index

Author Index

About the Authors