Van den, P. M. J. (2009). Order and structural dependence selection of LPV-ARX models using a nonnegative Garrote approach. In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2009), 16-18 December 2009 Please check the document version of this publication:• A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website.• The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review.• The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers. Link to publication General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Abstract-In order to accurately identify Linear ParameterVarying (LPV) systems, order selection of LPV linear regression models has prime importance. Existing identification approaches in this context suffer from the drawback that a set of functional dependencies needs to be chosen a priori for the parametrization of the model coefficients. However in a black-box setting, it has not been possible so far to decide which functions from a given set are required for the parametrization and which are not. To provide a practical solution, a nonnegative garrote approach is applied. It is shown that using only a measured data record of the plant, both the order selection and the selection of structural coefficient dependence can be solved by the proposed method.

The prediction-error approach to parameter estimation of linear models often involves solving a non-convex optimization problem. In some cases, it is therefore difficult to guarantee that the global optimum will be found. A common way to handle this problem is to find an initial estimate, hopefully lying in the region of attraction of the global optimum, using some other method. The prediction-error estimate can then be obtained by a local search starting at the initial estimate. In this paper, a new approach for finding an initial estimate of certain linear models utilizing structure and the subspace method is presented. The polynomial models are first written on the observer canonical state-space form, where the specific structure is later utilized, rendering least-squares estimation problems with linear equality constraints.Keywords: System identification, Subspace method, Black-box models. Handling Certain Structure Information in Subspace IdentificationC. Lyzell * M. Enqvist * L. Ljung * * Division of Automatic Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköpings Universitet, SE -581 83, Linköping, Sweden.(E-mail: {lyzell,maren,ljung}@isy.liu.se)Abstract: The prediction-error approach to parameter estimation of linear models often involves solving a non-convex optimization problem. In some cases, it is therefore difficult to guarantee that the global optimum will be found. A common way to handle this problem is to find an initial estimate, hopefully lying in the region of attraction of the global optimum, using some other method. The prediction-error estimate can then be obtained by a local search starting at the initial estimate. In this paper, a new approach for finding an initial estimate of certain linear models utilizing structure and the subspace method is presented. The polynomial models are first written on the observer canonical state-space form, where the specific structure is later utilized, rendering least-squares estimation problems with linear equality constraints.

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Abstract-Order selection of linear regression models has been thoroughly researched in the statistical community for some time. Different shrinkage methods have been proposed, such as the Ridge and Lasso regression methods. Especially the Lasso regression has won fame because of its ability to set less important parameters exactly to zero.However, these methods do not take dynamical systems into account, where the regressors are ordered via the time lag. To this end, a modified variant of the nonnegative garrote method will be analyzed.

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