EE263 Autumn 2015 S. Boyd and S.
Lall
Example: Estimation / Filtering
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Estimation / filtering
u w y
H(s) A/D
I signal u is piecewise constant (period 1 sec)
I filtered by 2nd-order system H(s), step response s(t)
I A/D runs at 10Hz, with 3-bit quantizer
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Typical behavior
u(t)
0
−1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1.5
s(t)
0.5
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1
w(t)
−1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1
y(t)
−1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
problem: estimate original signal u, given quantized, filtered signal y
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Simple approach
one simple approach:
I ignore quantization
I design equalizer G(s) for H(s) (i.e., GH ≈ 1)
I approximate u as G(s)y
. . . yields terrible results
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Better approach
formulate as estimation problem (EE263) . . .
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u(t) (solid) and û(t) (dotted)
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
−0.2
−0.4
−0.6
−0.8
−1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
RMS error 0.03, well below quantization error (!)