The frequency domain decomposition (FDD) is an output-only system identification technique popular in civil engineering, in particular in structural health monitoring. As an output-only algorithm, it is useful when the input data is unknown. FDD is a modal analysis technique which generates a system realization using the frequency response given (multi-)output data.[1][2]
- Estimate the power spectral density matrix
at discrete frequencies
.
- Do a singular value decomposition of the power spectral density, i.e.
where
is a unitary matrix holding the singular vectors
,
is the diagonal matrix holding the singular values
.
- For an
degree of freedom system, then pick the
dominating peaks in the power spectral density using whichever technique you wish (or manually). These peaks correspond to the mode shapes.[1]
- Using the mode shapes, an input-output system realization can be written.