Ad van den Boom, Ton Backx and Yucai Zhu

NICONET Report 1999-19: July 2000.

This report describes the preliminary steps for setting up a benchmark collection for identification. The identification protocol is described, where aspects as experiment set-up, signal pre-processing, modelling, parametrization, estimation methods and model validation are reviewed briefly. The relation of identification and control is stipulated. An analysis is given of requirements for good benchmarks for identification and some relevant organisational issues are addressed.