A time-domain approach to model validation

In this paper we offer a novel approach to control-oriented model validation problems. The problem is to decide whether a postulated nominal model with bounded uncertainty is consistent with measured input-output data. Our approach directly uses time-domain input-output data to validate uncertainty models. The algorithms we develop are computationally tractable and reduce to (generally nondifferentiable) convex feasibility problems or to linear programming problems. In special cases, we give analytical solutions to these problems