Using tfest to find a system model
The function FitTransferFunction below uses tfest to fit a linear model to frequency response data.
The arguments NumeratorForm and DenominatorForm are vectors of ones and zeros. The model is a transfer function whose numerator and denominator are polynomials in $ s $. (Recall that $ s=j\omega $.) Each element of the vectors corresponds to a single term of the numerator or denominator, in order of decreasing powers of $ s $.
For example, if you want the function to fit a transfer function of the form $ \frac{K_1 s}{K_2 s + K_3} $ (a high-pass filter), you would use numeratorForm = [ 1 0 ] and denominatorForm = [ 1 1 ]. These parameters, tfest will fit a first-order polynomial for the numerator and denominator with no constant term in the numerator.
If you wanted to fit a transfer function of the form $ \frac{K_1 s^2}{K_2 s^3 + K_3 s^2 + K_4 s + K_5} $, you would use numeratorForm = [ 1 0 0 ] and denominatorForm = [ 1 1 1 1]
function EstimatedTransferFunction = FitTransferFunction( ... MagnitudeRatio, PhaseDifferenceDegrees, FrequencyHertz, NumeratorForm, DenominatorForm ) % convert magnitude and phase to single complex vector complexResponseData = MagnitudeRatio .* exp( 1i .* PhaseDifferenceDegrees .* pi ./ 180 ); % create optional initial model for tfest so that known zero % coefficients can be constrained initalModel = idtf( NumeratorForm, DenominatorForm ); zeroCoefficients = find( NumeratorForm == 0 ); for ii = 1:numel( zeroCoefficients ) initalModel.Structure.Numerator.Free(ii) = false; end zeroCoefficients = find( DenominatorForm == 0 ); for ii = 1:numel( zeroCoefficients ) initalModel.Structure.Denominator.Free(ii) = false; end frequencyResponseData = frd( complexResponseData, FrequencyHertz, 'FrequencyUnit', 'Hz'); EstimatedTransferFunction = tfest( frequencyResponseData, initalModel ); end
Here is some sample code you can use to test and understand FitTransferFunction.
%Generate some synthetic frequency response measurement data s = tf( [ 1 0 ], 1 ); highPass = s / ( s + 1 ) [ magnitude, phase, frequency ] = bode( highPass ); % add some random noise noiseStandardDeviation = 0.05; magnitude = magnitude + noiseStandardDeviation * randn( size( magnitude ) ); phase = phase + noiseStandardDeviation * randn( size( phase ) ); numeratorForm = [ 1 0 ]; % decreasing powers of s -- first order with no constant term denominatorForm = [ 1 1 ]; % decreasing powers of s -- first order with constant term estimatedTransferFunction = FitTransferFunction( ... magnitude, phase, frequency, numeratorForm, denominatorForm )