Title
Specialized Interior-Point Algorithm for Stable Nonlinear System Identification
Abstract
Estimation of nonlinear dynamic models from data poses many challenges, including model instability and nonconvexity of long-term simulation fidelity. Recently Lagrangian relaxation has been proposed as a method to approximate simulation fidelity and guarantee stability via semidefinite programming (SDP); however, the resulting SDPs have large dimension, limiting their utility in practical problems. In this paper, we develop a path-following interior-point algorithm that takes advantage of special structure in the problem and reduces computational complexity from cubic to linear growth with the length of the dataset. The new algorithm enables empirical comparisons to established methods including nonlinear autoregressive models with exogenous inputs, and we demonstrate superior generalization to new data. We also explore the “regularizing” effect of stability constraints as an alternative to regressor subset selection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TAC.2018.2867358
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stability analysis,Mathematical model,Computational modeling,Nonlinear systems,Data models,Predictive models,State-space methods
Autoregressive model,Mathematical optimization,Fidelity,Nonlinear system,Nonlinear system identification,Algorithm,Lagrangian relaxation,Interior point method,Semidefinite programming,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
6
0018-9286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
26
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jack Umenberger194.90
Ian R. Manchester236135.92