On consistency of recursive least squares identification algorithms for controlled auto-regression models

The recursive least squares (RLS) algorithms is a popular parameter estimation one. Its consistency has received much attention in the identification literature. This paper analyzes convergence of the RLS algorithms for controlled auto-regression models (CAR models), and gives the convergence theorems of the parameter estimation by the RLS algorithms, and derives the conditions that the parameter estimates consistently converge to the true parameters under noise time-varying variance and unbounded condition number. This relaxes the assumptions that the noise variance is constant and that high-order moments are existent. Finally, the proposed algorithms are tested with two example systems, including an experimental water-level system.