Reduction of Arbitrary Dynamical Systems by Wavelet Bases
Abstract A procedure is developed for the identification and classification of nonlinear and time-varying dynamical systems based on measurements of their input and output. The procedure consists of reducing the governing equations with respect to a basis of scaling functions. Given the localizing properties of wavelets, the reduced system is well adapted to predicting local changes in time as well as changes that are localized to particular components of the system. The reduction process relies on traditional Galerkin techniques and recent analytical expressions for evaluating the inner product between scaling functions and their derivatives. Examples from a variety of dynamical systems are used to demonstrate the scope and limitations of the proposed method.