Patent Application: US-41567403-A

Abstract:
quick real - time identification and estimation of a time - non - varying or time - varying system . a new h ∞ evaluation criterion is determined , a fast algorithm for a modified h ∞ filter based on the criterion is developed , and a quick time - varying system identifying method according to the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm is provided . by the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm , a time - varying system sharply varying can be traced with an amount of calculation o per unit time step . the algorithm completely agrees with a fast kalman filtering algorithm at the extreme of the upper limit value . if the estimate of impulse response is determined , a pseudo - echo is sequentially determined from the estimate and subtracted from the real echo to cancel the echo . thus an echo chancellor is realized .

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embodiments of the present invention will be described hereinafter . details are shown , for example , in “ derivation of a fast algorithm of modified h ∞ filters ”, k . nishiyama , ieee international conference on industrial electronics , control and instrumentation , rbc - ii , pp . 462 - 467 , october , 2000 . first , main symbols used in the embodiments of the present invention and whether they are known or unknown will be described . x k : state vector or just state , unknown and to be estimated . y k : observation signal , known and input to a filter . x { circumflex over ( )} k | k : state value of the state x k at time k , estimated by using observation signals y 0 - y k . given by a filter equation . x { circumflex over ( )} 0 | 0 : initial estimate of a state , essentially unknown but set to 0 for convenience . k s , k + 1 : filter gain , obtained by matrix p { circumflex over ( )} k | k − 1 . σ wk : corresponds to the covariance matrix of the system noise , known in theory but unknown in practice . p { circumflex over ( )} k | k − 1 : corresponds to the covariance matrix of the error of x { circumflex over ( )} k | k − 1 , given by a riccati equation . p { circumflex over ( )} 1 | 0 : corresponds to the covariance matrix of an error in the initial state , essentially unknown but set to ε 0 i for convenience . σ 2 v : variance of the observation noise , treated as known in theory but unknown in practice . σ 2 w : variance of the system noise , treated as known in theory but unknown in practice . a mark “{ circumflex over ( )}” placed above a symbol indicates an estimated value , a mark “ u ” indicates that the matrix is extended by one row , and a mark “{ tilde over ()}” is added for convenience . these marks are placed at the upper right of characters for input convenience , but , as shown in expressions , they are identical with those placed above characters . “ l ”, “ h ”, “ p ”, and “ k ” indicate matrixes . some of them are written in bold face as in expressions , but they are usually written in lightface for convenience . next , a state - space model as in the following equations ( 7 ) to ( 9 ) is discussed . x k + 1 = x k + w k , w k , x k εr n ( 7 ) z k = h k x k , z k εr , h k εr 1 × n ( 9 ) where , l k = h k ( h k =[ u k u k − 2 . . . u k − n + 1 ]) assuming an echo canceller or the like . for such a state - space model , an h ∞ evaluation criterion ( γ f is newly placed in the left - hand side ) such as that shown by expression ( 10 ) is proposed . sup x 0 , { w i } , { v i }  ∑ i = 0 k   e f , i  2 / ρ  x 0 - x ˇ 0  - 1  σ - 1 0 2 + ∑ i = 0 k   w i  σ w k 2 + ∑ i = 0 k   v i  2 / ρ & lt ; γ f 2 ( 10 ) when it is assumed that ρ or σ wk does not depend on γ f , a modified h ∞ filter of level γ f satisfying the evaluation criterion can be given by the following equations ( 11 ) to ( 14 ) by applying a standard h ∞ estimation scheme known in the system identification field . this scheme is shown , for example , in “ linear estimation in krein spaces — part i : theory ,” b . hassibi , a . h . sayed , and t . kailath , ieee trans . automatic control , 41 , 1 , pp . 18 - 33 , 1996 ., and “ linear estimation in krein spaces — part ii : applications ,” b . hassibi , a . h . sayed , and t . kailath , ieee trans . automatic control , 41 , 1 , pp . 34 - 49 , 1996 . z _ k  k = h k  ϰ k  k ( 11 ) ϰ ^ k + 1  k + 1 = ϰ ^ k  k + k a , k + 1  ( y k + 1 - h k + 1  ϰ ^ k  k ) filter   equation ( 12 ) k a , k + 1 = p ^ k + 1  k  h k + 1 t  ( h k + 1  p ^ k + 1  k  h k + 1 t + ρ ) - 1 filter    gain ( 13 ) p ^ k + 1  k = p ^ k  k - 1 - p ^ k  k - 1  [ h k t  h k t ]  r e , k - 1  [ h k h k ]  p ^ k  k - 1 + ∑ w k   where , riccati   equation ( 14 ) e j , i = z i  i - h i  ϰ i r e , k = r k + [ h k h k ]  p k  k - 1  [ h k t  h k t ] r k = [ ρ 0 0 - ργ j 2 ] , σ w k = γ f - 2  p k + 1  k p k  k - 1 - 1 + h k t  h k & lt ; 0 ,  p 1  0 = ɛ 0  i ,  ɛ 0 & gt ; 0 0 & lt ; ρ = 1 - γ f - 2 ≤ 1 ,  γ f & gt ; 1 ( 15 ) since a weight ρ in the evaluation criterion depends on an upper limit γ f determined in advance , the above algorithm is essentially different from that applied to normal h ∞ filters . the present algorithm controls a maximum energy gain from disturbances ( having the initial state x 0 , the system noise { w i }, and the observation noise { ν i }) weighted by ρ to a filter error { e f , i } so as to be smaller than γ f 2 . therefore , the present algorithm is a robust filtering algorithm against the disturbances . this property is reflected by the tracking characteristic of a time - varying system . when γ f →∞ is satisfied , ρ = 1 and σ wk = 0 . in this time , the modified h ∞ filter becomes a normal h ∞ filter . the main load for calculating the modified h ∞ filter rises during the update of p { circumflex over ( )} k + 1 | k εr n × n , which requires the amount of calculation in proportion to n 2 or n 3 . that is , an arithmetic operation of o ( n 2 ) per unit time step is required . here , a tap number n matches the dimension of the state vector x k . therefore , as the dimension of x k increases , the computation time required to perform the modified h ∞ filter increases rapidly . in order to overcome the drawback , the introduction of a fast algorithm of the modified h ∞ filter is needed . the calculation of the riccati equation ( covariance equation of a state estimation error ) shown in equation ( 14 ) is dominant in the computational complexity of the modified h ∞ filter . therefore , to process the modified h ∞ filter at a high speed , if the filter gain of equation ( 13 ) is directly determined without using the riccati equation , the computational burden can be significantly reduced . since it is difficult to derive a fast algorithm for directly obtaining a filter gain k s , k εr n × 1 , however , evolving an algorithm for fast calculating a gain matrix defined as follows is examined . p k =  [  k t  ω k   k ] - 1 = [ ∑ i = 1 k  ρ k - i  c i t  w i  c i ] - 1 ω k =  [ ρω k - 1 0 0 w k ] , ω 1 = w 1 , w i = ρ   r i - 1 = [ 1 0 0 - γ f - 2 ] ∈  2 × 2  k =  [ c 1 ⋮ c k ] , c i = [ h i h i ] ∈  2 × n . ( 17 ) a matrix p k satisfies the riccati equation of ( 14 ). therefore , when a gain matrix k k is obtained , the filter gain k s , k is immediately obtained from the following lemma . the filter gain k s , k of the modified h ∞ filter is obtained by using the gain matrix k k as shown below . in practice , the gain matrix k k can be fast calculated by the recursive method in lemma 3 . k s , k = g k − 1 { overscore ( k )} k , g k = ρ + γ f − 2 h k { overscore ( k )} k εr ( 18 ) { overscore ( k )} k ( i )= ρ k k ( i , 1 ), i = 1 , 2 , . . . , n ( 19 ) k k + 1 = m k − b k f k − 1 μ k εr n × 2 ( 20 ) here , m k εr n × 2 and μ k εr 1 × 2 are obtained by dividing a matrix of k u k = q u k − 1 c u k as shown below . [ m k μ k ] = [ 0 k k ] + [ s k - 1 a k  s k - 1 ]  [ c k t + a k t  c k t ] ( 21 ) auxiliary variables a k εr n × 1 , s k εr , and b k f − 1 k εr n × 1 are obtained as well . in conclusion , the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm can be summarized as below . [ 0085 ] fig1 shows a flowchart of the fast algorithm , where l indicates a maximum data length . [ step 0 ] set initial conditions of a recursive expression as follows , where ε 0 is a substantially large positive constant . k 0 = 0 , a - 1 = 0 , s - 1 = ρ ɛ 0 , d - 1 = 0 , x ^ 0 | 0 = 0 [ step 1 ] compare time k with the maximum data length l . when the time k is larger than the maximum data length , terminate the processing . when the time k is equal to or smaller than the maximum data length , the processing proceeds to the next step ( a conditional statement can be removed , if unnecessary ). [ step 2 ] determine a k and s k recursively as follows . a k = a k − 1 − k k w k { tilde over ( e )} k εr n × 1 s k = ρs k − 1 + e k t w k { tilde over ( e )} k εr k ˇ k = [ s k - 1  e k t k k + a k  s k - 1  e k t ] ∈  ( n + 1 ) × 2 k ˇ k = [ m k μ k ]  m k ∈  n × 2 , μ k ∈  1 × 2 [ step 5 ] determine d k , and obtain a gain matrix k s , k + 1 from k k + 1 as follows : d k =[ d k − 1 − m k w k η k ][ 1 − μ k w k η k ] − 1 { overscore ( k )} k + 1 ( i )= ρ k k + 1 ( i , 1 ), i = 1 , . . . , n k s , k + 1 = g k + 1 − 1 { overscore ( k )} k + 1 , g k + 1 = ρ + γ f − 2 h k + 1 { overscore ( k )} k + 1 where , η k εr 2 × 1 , d k εr n × 1 , k k + 1 εr n × 2 , k s , k + 1 εr n × 1 , 0 & lt ; ρ = 1 − γ f − 2 ≦ 1 , γ f & gt ; 1 . [ step 6 ] update the filter equation of the h ∞ filter as follows . { circumflex over ( x )} k + 1 | k − 1 ={ circumflex over ( x )} k | k + k a , k + 1 ( y k + 1 − h k + 1 { circumflex over ( x )} k | k ) [ step7 ] put the time k forward ( k = k + 1 ). the processing returns to step 2 , and the subsequent processes are repeated as long as the data exists . the existence of the fast h ∞ filter can be checked with the computational complexity of o ( n ) by using the following existence condition . − e { circumflex over ( ξ )} i + ργ f 2 & gt ; 0 , i = 0 , . . . , k ( 22 ) ϱ = 1 - γ f 2 , ξ ^ i  h i  k ~ i 1 - h i  k ~ i ( 23 ) next , how the computational complexity of the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm decreases , as compared with the computational requirement of the modified h , filtering algorithm , will be discussed . only the number of multiplications is used for evaluating the amount of calculation of an equation , and is calculated by the following method . number of multiplications when a j - by - k matrix is multiplied by a k - by - l matrix is j × k × l ( times ). here , when three or more matrixes or vectors are multiplied , they are calculated from the left unless a direction is specially shown in the figure . [ 0104 ] fig2 and 3 are views showing of the amount of calculation of each part of the modified h ∞ filtering algorithm , where n indicates a tap number . in fig3 ( a ), a calculation for obtaining r e , k − 1 from r e , k is ignored . similarly , in fig2 ( a ), a calculation for obtaining ( h k + 1 p { circumflex over ( )} k + 1 | k h t k + 1 + 1 ) − 1 from ( h k + 1 p { circumflex over ( )} k + 1 | k h t k + 1 + 1 ) is also ignored . as shown in fig2 ( a ), 3 ( a ), and 3 ( b ), the amount of calculation of each of k s | k + 1 , r e , k , and p { circumflex over ( )} k + 1 | k is in proportion to the square of the tap number . therefore , the amount of calculation of the entire modified h ∞ filtering algorithm is o ( n 2 ) per unit time step . [ 0106 ] fig4 is a view showing the amount of calculation required when the order of matrix calculations is changed . more specifically , fig4 shows the amount of calculation required when the order of matrix calculations in the following part is changed in the riccati equation , compared with fig3 ( b ). since the amount of calculation of the above - described part is proportional to the cube of the tap number , the amount of calculation of p { circumflex over ( )} k + 1 | k is also in proportion to the cube of the tap number . accordingly , the amount of calculation of the entire h ∞ filter increases from the square to the cube of the tap number . since either algorithm requires the amount of calculation proportional to the square or cube of the tap number , however , the computational burden for carrying out the filter increases significantly as the tap number increases . in fact , since a tap number used in the field of communication engineering , for example , is approximately 400 , the practical use of the algorithm becomes very difficult . [ 0110 ] fig5 and 6 are views showing the amount of calculation in the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm . in the expression of k u k in fig5 ( b ), s k − 1 is obtained from s k , but the calculation thereof is ignored . similarly , in the expression of d k in fig6 ( b ), a calculation for obtaining [ 1 − μ k w k η k ] − 1 from [ 1 − μ k w k η k ] is also ignored . the amount of calculation in the entire present fast algorithm is o ( n ) per unit time step according to fig5 and 6 . therefore , the amount of calculation in the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm is in proportion to the tap number . in this case , the amount of calculation ( the number of multiplications ) for performing the fast h ∞ filter once is 28n + 16 per unit step , and is approximately double the amount ( multiplication frequency ) of calculation required for a fast kalman filter , that is 12n + 3 . as described above , although the computational complexity proportional to the square or cube of the tap number is required for the modified h ∞ filtering algorithm , the computational complexity of the present fast algorithm is smaller and proportional to the tap number . the advantage of the present invention will be examined , with an echo canceller being taken as an example . an observation value { y k } of an echo { d k } is expressed in the following expression by an ( time - varying ) impulse response ({ h i [ k ]} of an echo path , where it is considered that a received signal { u k } is an input signal to the echo path : y k = d k + v k = ∑ i = 0 n - 1  h i  [ k ]  u k - i + v k ,  k = 0 , 1 , 2 , … ( 24 ) where , u k and y k indicate , respectively , the received signal and the echo at time t k (= kt , t is a sampling period ); v k indicates circuit noise having zero mean at time t k ; and h i [ k ] ( i = 0 , . . . , and n − 1 ) is a time - varying impulse responses assuming a gradual change , and the tap number n thereof is known . once estimated values { h { circumflex over ( )} i [ k ]} of the impulse response are obtained , a quasi echo is generated as follows by using the estimated values . d ^ k = ∑ i = 0 n - 1  h ^ i  [ k ]  u k - i ,  k = 0 , 1 , 2 , … ( 25 ) subtracting this from the echo ( y k − d { circumflex over ( )} k ≈ 0 ) , the echo is cancelled , where u k − 1 = 0 when k − i & lt ; 0 . from the above description , the echo canceller problem is equivalent to successively estimating the impulse response { h i [ k ]} of the echo path from the received signal { u k } and echo { y k }, both of which are directly observable . in general , when the h ∞ filter is applied to an echo canceller , equation ( 24 ) has to be expressed by a state - space model formed of a state equation and an observation equation . in this case , since the state vector to be obtained is the impulse response { h i [ k ]}, allowing a state vector x k to fluctuate with w k , the following state - space model can be constructed for the echo path . { circumflex over ( x )} k + 1 ={ circumflex over ( x )} k + w k , { circumflex over ( x )} w k εr n ( 26 ) z k = h k x k , z k ε r , h k εr 1 × n ( 28 ) x k =[ h 0 [ k ], . . . , h n − 1 [ k ]] t , w k =[ w k ( 1 ), . . . , w k ( n )] t modified h ∞ filtering algorithm and fast h ∞ filtering algorithm for such a state - space model are the same as those described above . while the impulse response is estimated , if the occurrence of a transmission signal is detected , the estimation is generally stopped in the meanwhile . thus , when an estimate { h { circumflex over ( )} i [ k ]} of the impulse response is obtained , the quasi echo is successively obtained therefrom as follows . d ^ k = h k  x ^ k | k = ∑ i = 0 n - 1  h ^ i  [ k ]  u k - i ( 29 ) therefore , subtracting this from an actual echo to cancel the echo , an echo canceller is implemented . here , an estimate error , e k = y k − d { circumflex over ( )} k , is called a residual echo . a modified h ∞ filter and a fast h ∞ filter are evaluated by simulation in a case in which the impulse response of an echo path is time - invariant ( h i [ k ]= h i ) and the tap number n thereof is 24 . y k = ∑ i = 0 23  h i  u k - i + v k ( 30 ) [ 0127 ] fig7 is a view showing values of the impulse response { h i } in this case . v k is stationary gaussian white noise having zero mean and variance σ v 2 of 1 . 0 × 10 − 6 , and a sampling period t is set to 1 . 0 for convenience . the received signal { u k } is approximated by a quadratic ar model as shown below . u k = α 1 u k − 1 + α 2 u k − 2 + w k ′ ( 31 ) where , α 1 = 0 . 7 , α 2 = 0 . 1 +, and w k ′ is stationary gaussian white noise having zero mean and variance σ w ′ 2 of 0 . 04 . the modified h ∞ filter and the fast h ∞ filter will be compared . [ 0131 ] fig8 includes views showing estimated results of the impulse responses of the modified h ∞ filter and the fast h ∞ filter ( initial value x { circumflex over ( )} 0 | 0 = 0 , estimated value x { circumflex over ( )} 100 | 100 at 100th step , ε o = 20 ). fig8 ( a ) and ( b ) show estimated results of both filters when γ f = 10 5 , and fig8 ( c ) and ( d ) show estimated results thereof when γ f = 2 . 0 . from the figures , performance on the estimation accuracy of both filters is equal . in other words , speeding - up does not reduce the estimation accuracy . note that , if γ f is too small , the existence condition of the filters is not satisfied . when γ f = 1 . 0 × 10 5 , the results are substantially equal to that of a fast kalman filter . therefore , it is found that the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm includes the fast kalman filtering algorithm and its convergence rate can be accelerated by adjusting γ f . next , the computation time required for the modified h ∞ filter and that for the fast h ∞ filter are evaluated under conditions where the impulse response of the echo path is time - invariant and the tap number is increased to 24 , 48 , 96 , 192 , and 384 . since dispersion may occur in one measurement , the average of four measurements was used . the values shown in fig7 are used as impulse responses { h i } in simulation , and impulse responses { h i } thereafter ( 24 ≦ k & lt ; n ) are set to 0 . the filter calculation is performed up to step 100 . the computation time was measured by a command “ etime ” of matlab on a workstation ( sparc , 60 mhz , 32 mb ). [ 0134 ] fig9 is a view showing measurement results of the computation time . in the riccati equation , matrix calculation is performed for a modified h ∞ filter ( 2 ) such that the amount of calculation is in proportion to the square of the tap number , and matrix calculation is performed for a modified h ∞ filter ( 1 ) such that the amount of calculation is in proportion to the cube of the tap number ( see fig3 ( b ) and fig4 ). in modified h ∞ filters , since the computational complexity is in proportion to the square or cube of the tap number depending on the order of matrix calculation as described above , they are not practical . the tracking performance of each algorithm will be evaluated by using the echo canceller in a case in which the system ( impulse response ) is varied with time . it is assumed that the tap number of the impulse response is 48 , and { h i } is varied with time , as shown in fig1 ( a ), based on the values shown in fig7 . it is also assumed that v k is stationary gaussian white noise having zero mean and variance σ v 2 of 1 . 0 × 10 − 6 , and the sampling period t is for convenience . the received signal { u k } is approximated by a quadratic ar model as follows . u k = α 1 u k − 1 + α 2 u k − 2 + w k ′ ( 32 ) here , α 1 = 0 . 7 , α 2 = 0 . 1 , and w k ′ is stationary gaussian white noise having zero mean and variance σ 2 w ′ of 0 . 04 . [ 0139 ] fig1 and 11 are views showing the simulation result of each algorithm . these views show the tracking performance of time - varying systems which employ a fast h ∞ filter ( fast hf ), a fast kalman filter ( fast kf ), and lms algorithm ( lms ). fig1 ( b ) shows the estimates obtained with the fast h ∞ filter when γ f = 2 . 0 . fig1 ( a ) shows the estimates obtained with the fast kalman filter . the initial value of the fast h ∞ filter is set such that x { circumflex over ( )} 0 | 0 = 0 and so ε o = 20 , and the initial value of the fast kalman filter is set in the same way . fig1 ( b ) shows the estimates obtained by the lms algorithm , wherein the initial value is set such that h { circumflex over ( )} o = 0 , and the step size is set such that μ = 0 . 5 so as to give a stable and rapid convergence . it is found that the tracking performance of the fast h ∞ filter is extremely excellent , and the estimates become stable in about thirty steps after the impulse response is varied . on the other hand , the fast kalman filter and the lms algorithm cannot track the impulse response at all . generally , the tracking performance of h ∞ filters having no system noise drops with time since the filter gain becomes smaller due to a decay in the diagonal component of p { circumflex over ( )} k | k − 1 and the amount of update of the estimates decreases . in other words , as the number of steps increases , the estimates are updated little . therefore , in order to improve the tracking performance of kalman filters and h ∞ filters , an appropriate value needs to be externally added to the diagonal component of the matrix p { circumflex over ( )} k | k − 1 . if it is directly added , however , a fast algorithm which uses the shift property of an observation matrix h k cannot be implemented . it is one of significant features of the present invention to solve this problem theoretically by applying a weight ρ of 1 − γ f − 2 to the h ∞ evaluation criterion . the weight ρ appears in an update equation of s k of the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm , as follows . ( update of auxiliary variable s k of the fast h ∞ filter ) an auxiliary variable s k of the fast h ∞ filter is indicated by the following expression . s k = ρs k − 1 + e t k w k e { tilde over ()} k , 0 & lt ; ρ = 1 − γ f − 2 ≦ 1 in the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm , s k is used as s k − 1 in the equation of k u k . in order to largely update the filter equation , s k − 1 must be larger . in other word , s k needs to be kept small to make the large update . the existence of ρ prevents s k from increasing rapidly , which is resultantly equivalent to adding system noise , and thereby the tracking performance is improved . since the weight ρ is defined as 1 − γ f − 2 the tracking performance can be varied by adjusting γ f as confirmed in the simulation . [ 0144 ] fig1 is a view showing the relationship between γ f and ρ . according to the figure , when γ f = 3 . 0 , ρ = 0 . 8889 , which means that 89 % of s k − 1 is transmitted to s k . note that , if γ f is set very small , however , the effect of s k − 1 is significantly reduced and the existence condition of the filter is not satisfied . when γ f is large , γ = 1 . an increase in s k is not suppressed at all , and therefore , the tracking performance drops . when γ f =∞, in particular , the present fast algorithm completely matches the fast kalman filtering algorithm . [ 0146 ] fig1 is a view showing the relationship among the tap number and the computation time for the fast h ∞ filter , the fast kalman filter , and the lms algorithm , where the number of time steps executed for the filters is 300and γ f = 3 . 0 . the computation time was measured for the fast h ∞ filter , the fast kalman filtering algorithm , and the lms algorithm when the tap number was increased to 48 , 96 , 192 , and 384 in the cases shown in fig1 and 11 . because dispersion may occur in one measurement result , the average of four measurement results , for example , was used . it can be confirmed that , in any algorithm , the amount of calculation is in proportion to the tap number . it is also found that when the tap number is large , the computation time for the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm is about a little less than twice the computation time for the fast kalman filtering algorithm , and is approximately four times longer than that for the lms algorithm , which is practical . considering the tracking performance , it can be said that the fast h ∞ filtering algorithm is sufficiently effective . the inverse matrix of p k will be indicated by equation ( 33 ). further , a recursive equation for the matrix p k can be obtained , as shown in equation ( 34 ), by using the matrix inversion lemma . p k − 1 = ρo k − 1 t ω k − 1 o k − 1 + c k t w k c k [ 0152 ] p k =  [ ρ   p k - 1 - 1 + [ h k t  h k t ]  w k  [ h k h k ] ] - 1 =  ρ - 1  p k - 1 - ρ - 1  p k - 1  [ h k t h k t ] ·  ( w k - 1 + [ h k h k ]  ρ - 1  p k - 1  [ h k t h k t ] ) - 1 · [ h k h k ]  ρ - 1  p k - 1 ,   ρ   p k =  p k - 1 - p k - 1  [ h k t h k t ] ·  ( r h + [ h k h k ]  p k - 1  [ h k t h k t ] ) - 1 · [ h k h k ]  p k - 1 ,   p k =  p k - 1 - p k - 1  [ h k t h k t ] ·  ( r h + [ h k h k ]  p k - 1  [ h k t h k t ] ) - 1 · [ h k h k ]  p k - 1 + γ f - 2  p k . ( 34 ) it is understood , when p k is replaced with p { circumflex over ( )} k + 1 | k , that the above equation satisfies the riccati equation of ( 13 ). the gain matrix k k can be expressed as follows . k k =  p k  c k t = [ ρ   p k - 1 - 1 + c k t  w k  c k ] - 1  c k t =  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t - ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t ·   [ w k - 1 + c k   ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t ] - 1  c k  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t =  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t -  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t  [ w k - 1 + c k  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t ] - 1 ·  [ ( w k - 1 + c k  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t ) - w k - 1 ] =  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t  [ i + w k  c k  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t ] - 1 =  ρ - 1  p k - 1  c k t  w k · [ w k + ρ - 1  w k  c k  p k - 1  c k t  w k ] - 1 =  ρ - 1  p k - 1  [ h k t - γ f - 2  h k t ] [ [ 1 0 0 - γ f - 2 ] +  ρ - 1  [ h k - γ f - 2  h k ]  p k - 1  [ h k t - γ f - 2  h k t ] ] - 1 =  ρ - 1  p k - 1  [ h k t h k t ]  ( 1 + h k  p k - 1  h k t ) - 1 ( 35 ) further , the filter gain can be obtained from the first block column of the gain matrix k k , as shown in equation ( 18 ), by using g k =( p + h k p k − 1 h t k )/( 1 + h k p k − 1 h t k ) and h k k { tilde over ()} k = h k p k − 1 h t k /( 1 + h k p k − 1 h t k ). assuming that the gain matrix k i ( i = 0 , . . . , and k ) is given , the following matrix , k k + 1 , will be calculated . first , equations ( 37 ) and ( 38 ) are newly introduced to utilize the shift property of c k . q u k is expressed recursively as shown in equation ( 39 ), and is divided as in the following equation ( 40 ). c ˘ k t = [ c k t c k t ] = [ c k + 1 t c k - n t ] ∈  ( n + 1 ) × 2 ( 37 ) q ˘ k = ∑ i = 1 k  ρ k - i  c ˘ i t  w i  c ˘ i ∈  ( n + 1 ) × ( n + 1 ) ( 38 ) { haeck over ( q )} k = ρ { haeck over ( q )} k − 1 { haeck over ( c )} k t w k { haeck over ( c )} k ( 39 ) [ 0160 ] q ˘ k = [ m k t k t t k q k ] = [ q k + 1 t _ k t t _ k m _ k ] . ( 40 ) using this notation , equation ( 36 ) of the time steps k and k + 1 is included in the following equation . q ˘ k  [ 0 k k ] = [ α k t c k t ] = c ˘ h t + [ α k t - c k t 0 ] ( 41 ) q ˘ k  [ k k + 1 0 ] = [ c k - 1 t β k t ] = c ˘ k t + [ 0 β k t - c k - n t ] ( 42 ) α k t = t k t k k εr 1 × 2 , β k t = t k k k + 1 ε r 1 × 2 . based on the notation , it is more convenient to obtain k u k εr ( n + 1 )× 2 , which satisfies the following equation , than to obtain k k directly . { haeck over ( k )} k =[ k k + 1 t k k t ] t =[ k k + 1 t k k − n t ] t ( 44 ) to this end , k u k εr ( n + 1 )× 2 can be expressed as shown in equation ( 46 ) by using equation ( 45 ), obtained from equation ( 41 ). c ˘ k t = q ˘ k  [ 0 k k ] - [ α k t - c k t 0 ] ( 45 ) k ˘ k =  [ m k μ k ] = q ˘ k - 1  c ˘ k t = [ 0 k k ] - q ˘ k - 1  [ α k t - c k t 0 ] =  [ 0 k k ] - [ s k - 1 a k  s k - 1 ]  [ α k t - c k t ] ( 46 ) here , k u k is divided into m k εr n × 2 and μ k εr 1 × 2 . also note that α t k − c t k =−( c k t + a k t c k t ). further , assuming that q u k has an inverse matrix , auxiliary variables a k εr n × 1 and s k εr satisfy the following equation . q ˘ k  [ 1 a k ] = [ s k 0 ]  ( [ 1 a k ]  s k - 1 = q ˘ k - 1  [ 1 0 ] ) ( 47 ) where , the bottom block of the above equation means t k + q k a k = 0 or t k t =− a k t q k t . next , auxiliary variables b k εr n × 1 and f k εr such as those shown in the following equation ( 48 ) are introduced to delete μ k in equation ( 46 ) without affecting the top block of c t k . further , subtracting b u k f k − 1 μ k from k u k in equation ( 46 ) provides equation ( 49 ). q ˘ k  b ˘ k = q ˘ k  [ b k f k ] = [ 0 1 ]  ( b ˘ k = [ b k f k ] ) ( 48 ) k ˘ k - b ˘ k  f k - 1  μ k =  [ m k μ k ] - [ b k  f k - 1 1 ]  μ k =  [ m k - b k  f k - 1  μ k 0 ] ( 49 ) then , the left - hand side of equation ( 49 ) is multiplied by q u k from the left to obtain the following equation . q ˘ k  ( k ˘ k - b ˘ k  f k - 1  μ k ) =  q ˘ k  k ˘ k - q ˘ k  b ˘ k  f k - 1  μ k = c ˘ k t - [ 0 1 ]  f k - 1  μ k =  c ˘ k t - [ 0 f k - 1  μ k ] ( 50 ) equation ( 49 ) is substituted for the left - hand side of the above equation . then , equation ( 43 ) is expressed as follows : q ˘ k  ( k ˘ k - b ˘ k  f k - 1  μ k ) = c ˘ k t - [ 0 f k - 1  μ k ] ,  [ q k + 1 t _ k t t _ k m _ k ]  [ m k - b k  f k - 1  μ k 0 ] = [ c k + 1 t c k - n t ] + [ 0 - f k - 1  μ k ] ( 51 ) this is the same form as equation ( 42 ). the following equation ( 52 ) can be obtained from the top block of equation ( 51 ). q k + 1 ( m k − b k f k − 1 μ k )= c k + 1 t ( 52 ) equations ( 36 ) and ( 52 ) are compared to obtain the update equation of the gain matrix k k . the auxiliary variables a k and s k can be obtained as follows : a k = a k − 1 − k k w k [ c k + c k a k − 1 ] εr n × 1 ( 53 ) s k = ρs k − 1 +[ c k t + a k t c k t ] w k [ c k + c k a k − 1 ] ε r ( 54 ) ( demonstration ) by using the following equation ( 55 ) of a k and s k and equation ( 39 ), equation ( 56 ) is obtained . q ˘ k - 1  [ 1 a k - 1 ] = [ s k - 1 0 ] ( 55 ) q ˘ k  [ 1 a k - 1 ] =  ρ   q ˘ k - 1  [ 1 a k - 1 ] + c ˘ k t  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] =  [ ρ   s k - 1 0 ] + [ c k t c k t ]  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] ( 56 ) on the other hand , the following equation is obtained by multiplying both sides of equation ( 41 ) by w k [ c k + c k a k − 1 ]. q ˘ k  [ 0 k k ]  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] = [ α k c k t ]  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] . ( 57 ) by subtracting equation ( 57 ) from equation ( 56 ), the following equation ( 58 ) is formed . q ˘ k  [ [ 1 a k - 1 ] - [ 0 k k ]  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] ] =  [ ρ   s k - 1 0 ] +  [ c k t c k t ]  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] - [ α k t c k t ]  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] ,  q ˘ k  [ 1 a k - 1 - k k  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] ] =  [ ρ   s k - 1 + [ c k t - α k t ]  w k  [ c k + c k  a k - 1 ] 0 ] ( 58 ) this equation is compared with equation ( 47 ). since α k t = t k t k k =− a k t c k t , equations ( 53 ) and ( 54 ) are obtained . the auxiliary variable d k = b k f k − 1 is obtained by the following equation ( 59 ). f k is updated by the following equation ( 60 ). d k =[ d k − 1 − m k w k η k ][ 1 − μ k w k η k ] − 1 ε r n × 1 ( 59 ) where , η k = c u k d u k − 1 = c k − n + c k + 1 d k − 1 , d − 1 = 0 , and f − 1 = 0 . ( demonstration ) in order to update b k and f k , equation ( 62 ) is formed by using equation ( 61 ). q ˘ k - 1  b ˘ k - 1 = q ˘ k - 1  [ b k - 1 f k - 1 ] = [ 0 1 ] ( 61 ) q ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 =  ρ   q ˘ k - 1  b ˘ k - 1 + c ˘ k t  w k  c ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 =  ρ  [ 0 1 ] + c ˘ k t  w k  c ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 ( 62 ) in order to modify the above equation so as to have the same form as equation ( 61 ), c u k t w k c u k b k − 1 u is subtracted from equation ( 62 ) to obtain the following equation . q ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 - c ˘ k t  w k  c ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 = q ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 - q ˘ k  k ˘ k  w k  c ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 = ρ  [ 0 1 ] ,  q ˘ k  [ b ˘ k - 1  k ˘  w k  c ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1 ] = ρ  [ 0 1 ] ( 63 ) comparing the above last equation with equation ( 48 ) yields a recursive equation for b u k . [ 0186 ] d k = b k  f k - 1 , d ˘ k = b ˘ k  f k - 1 = [ d k 1 ] ( 65 ) since they appear only for b u k and d k = b k f k − 1 εr n × 1 , however , it is more convenient to express equations ( 48 ) and ( 64 ) to the following equation ( 65 ). the matrix d k satisfies the following equation ( 66 ). q ˘ k  d ˘ k = q ˘ k  b ˘ k  f k - 1 = [ 0 1 ]  f k - 1 ,  q ˘ k  [ d k 1 ] = [ 0 f k - 1 ] ( 66 ) q ˘ k  [ b ˘ k - 1  f k - 1 - 1 - k ˘ k  w k  c ˘ k  b ˘ k - 1  f k - 1 - 1 ] =  q ˘ k  [ d ˘ k - 1 - k ˘ k  w k  c ˘ k  d ˘ k - 1 ] =  [ 0 ρ   f k - 1 - 1 ] ( 67 ) next , equation ( 63 ) is multiplied by f k − 1 − 1 to obtain the following equation ( 67 ), and is further expressed by the following equation ( 68 ) when d u k − 1 = b u k − 1 f k − 1 − 1 is used . q ˘ k  [ d ˘ k - 1 - [ m k μ k ]  w k  c ˘ k  d ˘ k - 1 ] = [ 0 ρ   f k - 1 - 1 ] ,  q ˘ k  [ d k - 1 - m k  w k  c ˘ k  d ˘ k - 1 1 - μ k  w k  c ˘ k  d ˘ k - 1 ] = [ 0 ρ   f k - 1 - 1 ] ( 68 ) therefore , the following equation is obtained when equation ( 68 ) is multiplied by [ 1 − μ k w k c u k d u k − 1 ] − 1 . q ⋁ k  [ [ d k - 1 - m k  w k  c ⋁ k  d ⋁ k - 1 ]  [ 1 - μ k  w k  c ⋁ k  d ⋁ k - 1 ] - 1 1 ]  = [ 0 ρ   f k - 1 - 1  [ 1 - μ k  w k  c ⋁ k  d ⋁ k - 1 ] - 1 ] by comparing this equation with equation ( 66 ), an update equation for d k and f k is finally obtained . as described above , the existence of the fast h ∞ filter can be checked with the computational complexity of o ( n ) by using the existence condition of equations ( 22 ) and ( 23 ). a demonstration thereof will be shown below . when the characteristic equation of a 2 × 2 matrix r e , k shown in the following equation ( 69 ) is solved , a eigenvalue λ i of r e , k is obtained by the following equation ( 70 ).  λ   i - r e , k  =   λ - ( ρ + h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t ) - h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t - h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t λ - ( - ρ   γ f 2 + h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t )  =  λ 2 - ( 2  h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t + ρ   ϱ )  λ - ρ 2  γ f 2 + ρ   ϱ   h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t = 0 ( 69 ) λ i = φ ± φ 2 - 4  ρ   ϱ   h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t + 4  ρ 2  γ f 2 2 ( 70 ) where , φ = 2h k { circumflex over ( σ )} k | k − 1 h k t + ρe , e = 1 − γ f 2 if the following expression ( 71 ) is satisfied , one of the two eigenvalues of the matrix r e , k is positive and the other is negative , and the matrixes r k and r e , k have the same inertia . therefore , the existence condition of equation ( 22 ) is obtained by using the following equation ( 72 ). here , the calculation of h k k { tilde over ()} k requires the same number of multiplications as o ( n ). − 4 ρeh k { circumflex over ( σ )} k | k − 1 h k t + 4ρ 2 γ f 2 & gt ; 0 ( 71 ) [ 0197 ] h k  ∑ ^ k | k - 1   h k t = h k  k ~ b 1 - h k  k b ( 72 ) according to the present invention , as described above , the fast real - time identification of time - invariant and time - variant systems can be implemented by using the fast algorithm ( fast h ∞ filtering algorithm ) for the modified h ∞ filters developed based on the new h ∞ evaluation criterion . in addition , according to the present invention , the present algorithm includes , as a particular case , the fast kalman filtering algorithm , and a term corresponding to the covariance of system noise which is dominant in the tracking performance of a time - varying system can be theoretically determined . further , according to the present invention , a fast time - varying system identification method can be provided , which is very effective particularly when a system ( impulse response ) is varied discontinuously with time , such as an echo canceller for a time - varying system which varies extremely as sudden line switching . furthermore , according to the present invention , a system identification method can be provided , which is applicable to echo cancellers in communication systems and acoustic systems , sound - field reproduction , and noise control .