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Regression analysis with missing data and unknown colored noise: application to the MICROSCOPE space mission
The analysis of physical measurements often copes with highly correlated
noises and interruptions caused by outliers, saturation events or transmission
losses. We assess the impact of missing data on the performance of linear
regression analysis involving the fit of modeled or measured time series. We
show that data gaps can significantly alter the precision of the regression
parameter estimation in the presence of colored noise, due to the frequency
leakage of the noise power. We present a regression method which cancels this
effect and estimates the parameters of interest with a precision comparable to
the complete data case, even if the noise power spectral density (PSD) is not
known a priori. The method is based on an autoregressive (AR) fit of the noise,
which allows us to build an approximate generalized least squares estimator
approaching the minimal variance bound. The method, which can be applied to any
similar data processing, is tested on simulated measurements of the MICROSCOPE
space mission, whose goal is to test the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) with
a precision of . In this particular context the signal of interest is
the WEP violation signal expected to be found around a well defined frequency.
We test our method with different gap patterns and noise of known PSD and find
that the results agree with the mission requirements, decreasing the
uncertainty by a factor 60 with respect to ordinary least squares methods. We
show that it also provides a test of significance to assess the uncertainty of
the measurement.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
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Comparison of Current Gravity Estimation and Determination Models
This paper will discuss the history of gravity estimation and determination models while analyzing methods that are in development. Some fundamental methods for calculating the gravity field include spherical harmonics solutions, local weighted interpolation, and global point mascon modeling (PMC). Recently, high accuracy measurements have become more accessible, and the requirements for high order geopotential modeling have become more stringent. Interest in irregular bodies, accurate models of the hydrological system, and on-board processing has demanded a comprehensive model that can quickly and accurately compute the geopotential with low memory costs. This trade study of current geopotential modeling techniques will reveal that each modeling technique has a unique use case. It is notable that the spherical harmonics model is relatively accurate but poses a cumbersome inversion problem. PMC and interpolation models, on the other hand, are computationally efficient, but require more research to become robust models with high levels of accuracy. Considerations of the trade study will suggest further research for the point mascon model. The PMC model should be improved through mascon refinement, direct solutions that stem from geodetic measurements, and further validation of the gravity gradient. Finally, the potential for each model to be implemented with parallel computation will be shown to lead to large improvements in computing time while reducing the memory cost for each technique.Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanic
Nonlinear system-identification of the filling phase of a wet-clutch system
The work presented illustrates how the choice of input perturbation signal and experimental design improves the derived model of a nonlinear system, in particular the dynamics of a wet-clutch system. The relationship between the applied input current signal and resulting output pressure in the filling phase of the clutch is established based on bandlimited periodic signals applied at different current operating points and signals approximating the desired filling current signal. A polynomial nonlinear state space model is estimated and validated over a range of measurements and yields better fits over a linear model, while the performance of either model depends on the perturbation signal used for model estimation
Structured Sparsity Models for Multiparty Speech Recovery from Reverberant Recordings
We tackle the multi-party speech recovery problem through modeling the
acoustic of the reverberant chambers. Our approach exploits structured sparsity
models to perform room modeling and speech recovery. We propose a scheme for
characterizing the room acoustic from the unknown competing speech sources
relying on localization of the early images of the speakers by sparse
approximation of the spatial spectra of the virtual sources in a free-space
model. The images are then clustered exploiting the low-rank structure of the
spectro-temporal components belonging to each source. This enables us to
identify the early support of the room impulse response function and its unique
map to the room geometry. To further tackle the ambiguity of the reflection
ratios, we propose a novel formulation of the reverberation model and estimate
the absorption coefficients through a convex optimization exploiting joint
sparsity model formulated upon spatio-spectral sparsity of concurrent speech
representation. The acoustic parameters are then incorporated for separating
individual speech signals through either structured sparse recovery or inverse
filtering the acoustic channels. The experiments conducted on real data
recordings demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for
multi-party speech recovery and recognition.Comment: 31 page
Power meter for Highly-Distorted Three-Phase Systems
This paper describes a low-cost, three-phase power meter, which is based on a fast, specially designed acquisition board coupled to a PC via the PC parallel/printer port or by means of an AT card. The power associated with the fundamental and first harmonics is computed by software that operates in the time domain and employs a sample-weighting procedure that makes the uncertainty related to the asynchronous sampling negligible. The low-cost acquisition board features two 8-bit 1 MHz converters and a local RAM, which decouples the PC clock from the measurement requirements. Hall effect transducers are used for the current channels and fast differential amplifiers for the voltage channels. The fast sampling frequency allows simple antialiasing filters to be employed. Digital filtering is used to reduce the sample number while increasing the resolution. The power uncertainty provided by this arrangement is less then 0.1 % with 2.5 measurements per second when a low-cost 486DX33-based PC is use
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