Questions tagged [impulse-response]
The impulse response of a dynamic system is its output when presented with a brief input signal, called an impulse.
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Numerical Calculation of impulse response out of frequency response
Currently I work on my Masterthesis which deals with structural dynamic simulation. As a part of it I have to filter a Signal with a FIR-Filter. From that Filter I know the Frequency Response (picture)...
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How to find the impulse response of filter that outputs the autocorrelation of the input?
I am trying to solve question 9.61 in the attached image.
I guess, by evaluating the autocorrelation for a specific instance, say $ t = 0 $ , that the impulse response, $h(t)$, should be : $$ h (t)...
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How does an LTI system produce multiple values from a unit impulse
I understand that in a discreet system, an impulse is 1 at the origin point and 0 everywhere else. I've seen many examples showing the impulse response of an LTI system to be many points, have many ...
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channel estimation for cdma
I am looking for a method to make a multi-user channel estimation with CDMA.
Here is my question:
Is there a way to estimate multi-user channels with their spreading codes? If yes, what is the ...
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DC Servo Impulse Response
I am trying to model the impulse response of the high-pass filters of an amplifier in MATLAB to try correcting (deconvolving) the distortions that the filter introduces at the low frequencies.
The ...
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Calculating an output of a system (Z- transform question)
I have a following question to answer:
An LTI system is described by its impulse response h[n]. For input x[n] it gives output y[n].
$$h[n] = u(n) - u(n-N) $$
$$x[n] = u(n) - u(n-M)$$
I want to ...
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Impulse response resampling : IIR aproximation vs windowing
I have a long measured impulse response and I wand to shorten it.
I imagined two options. The first is a simple windowing. The second is to model it as an IIR (prony, yulewalker, stmcb method) before ...
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Are there DC removal techniques that do not introduce a filtering transient?
I have an application in which I need to remove DC components from a sampled signal in real time (basically the same constraints of ECG, but it has nothing to do with the brain). My measured signal in ...
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Intuition behind commutativity of convolution in LTI systems
Why is convolution commutative, as it seems to treat two signals in a different way in an LTI system?
If you imagine $y[n] = x[n] \star h[n]$ with $x[n]$ being an input signal and $h[n]$ being the ...
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How to obtain backprojected distribution?
I want to show that backprojected distribution , $f_b(r)$ , obtained by backprojecting the projections of the impulse function $\beta(r)=\frac{\delta(r)}{\pi r}$ is equal to $\frac 1r$.
I figured out ...
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How to represent impulse function in 2D?
To be more specific I want to show that impulse function in 2D can be represented as $β(r)=δ(r)/πr$.
Also I want to show that each projection of a two dimensional impulse function at the origin is a ...
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Simple Impulse Response
I am trying to find the impulse response to this system:
At first it looks easy enough, $y(n)=x(n)(-1)^n$, set $x(n)=\delta(n)$, which makes $h(n)=(-1)^n$. But something seems wrong.
What am I ...
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Block diagram for a complex impulse response
I have this question regarding digital systems which might not handle sinusoidal signals in general. So let us say that I have a system with impulse response $h(n) = \{1+j, -1, 2j \}$ with first ...
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How to find the impulse response of this system with complex roots?
I've been working trying to analyze a causal stable system. Hopefully a numeric example such as the one I am working on, and the problems I face during it could be useful to others.
I have this ...
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How to calculate impulse response of a RC circuit
I have an $RC$ circuit and I calculate the differential equation as
$$RC \frac{dV_c}{ dt} + V_c = V_g$$ that is the same of
$$RCy'(t) + y(t) = x'(t).$$
If I assume $x(t) = u(t)$ I have that the ...
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Impulse response of a second order LTI
I have a set of measurement which I want to model with 2nd-order difference equations (first order eqs don't model well enough).
The equation is
$$y[n] = \alpha_1 y[n-1] + \alpha_2 y[n-2] + \beta_0 ...
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Steady state value of a complex convolution
I am trying few problems on the introductory part of DSP. One of the problem asks to calculate the steady state response of a system with impulse response $h[n] = (\frac{j}{2})^{n} u[n] $ to an input ...
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Why is the impulse response function of this system 0?
Suppose I have an system $ y(t) = t^{2}x(t)$.
The impulse response of this system would be: $h(t) = t^{2} \delta(t)$.
Since $\delta(t) = 0$ for $t \neq 0 , h(t) = 0$ for $t \neq 0$.
And at $t=0, h(...
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Impulse response when input to a system is differentiated, and its applicability to find response to general inputs
I will first give a short explanation of what I am asking, and then give a more comprehensive context.
If we have a LTI dynamic system acted upon by inputs $y(t)$ and producing outputs $x(t)$,
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we ...
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Convolution of Input signal and Impulse response
I can solve the output if the input is
$$ x[n] = \delta[n+1] + \delta[n] + 2\delta[n-1] + \delta[n-2]$$
and the impulse response is
$$ h[n]= 3\delta[n] − 2 \delta[n−1] − \delta[n−2] + \delta[n−3]$...
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Why is the first value in digital first-order IIR filter impulse response not the largest?
When I create a digital first-order IIR low-pass filter with scipy (code below), I get the following coefficients:
B: [ 0.1367 0.1367]
A: [ 1. -0.7265]
The ...
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Impulse response from Frequency response: why using $e^{j\omega}$ as an input?
Every resource that I can find uses this identity when deriving impulse response:
$h[n] = IDTFT \Big\{H(e^{j\omega}) \Big\}$
Suggesting that the input signal was $e^{j\omega}$. But by definition ...
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Phase wrap when computing impulse response from frequency response [closed]
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I have the frequency response of a system as a set of complex numbers.
I want the impulse response for that system.
Problem: The phase of my frequency response wraps around 2pi multiple times....
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How can I calculate what a recording would sound like if it was played through my speakers and mic?
I am trying to isolate the sound of someone speaking while music plays back in a noisy environment.
I have multiple speakers and a microphone in my system. I am able to
play back just music and ...
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Simple question about Sinc()
Suppose I use the ideal lowpass filter eq to attempt creating a IIR filter using it
:
$$
h[n] = \frac{\sin(\omega_c \, n)}{\pi \, n}, \qquad -\infty < n < \infty
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Obviously, I can't really (...
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Optimal $ n $ -th Order IIR /AR Approximation of a Moving Average Filter
I would like to approximate a moving average filter with an IIR filter of much lower order than the tap-length of the moving average filter. Optimality shall refer to the $L_2$ norm of the impulse ...
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How to compute the impulse response from incomplete frequency response data?
I need to compute the impulse response of a system, but I only have access to the frequency response data.
This data contains the output magnitude of the system (for a fixed input amplitude) at ...
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Poles of the transfer function in Z Transform
Given that:
$H(z)$ has 4 poles maximum.
$H(z)$ has a pole at $z_1=a+bi$
Given that the impulse response $h[n]$ is:
Symmetric: $h[n] = h[-n]$
Real: $\forall$$n$ , $h[n]$$\in$$\mathbb{R}$
How we can ...
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FIR Impulse response & transfer function
I am working though a dsp past paper and I have come across the questions "find the impulse response in the time domain" & "find the transfer function in the time domain" I know its really simple ...
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Estimation of the frequency response data using Matlab command invfreqz?
I would like to determine frequency response and then impulse response of the displacement equation (eq. 1 please see screen shot of the task below). In this example we study a response of the finite ...
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ACF and impulse response
These are questions according to the system identification.
I can understand some questions:
Is there a relation between autocorrelation function and impulse response?
Is it possible to identify the ...
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I want to get impulse response of causal system
I want to get impulse response of this causal system on first photo.
So I got frequency response on second photo from this system.
and now I am trying to transform this frequency response to impulse ...
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extracting a room response [duplicate]
So I have a wav file containing a record of a sine sweep played on my pc and recorded by a mic. And I want to extract the room impulse of it, I've looked online but I couldn't find any clear answers. ...
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Frequency response of marginally stable LTI systems
The frequency response of a system is defined as:
$$\int_0^\infty{h(t)e^{-j\omega t}dt}$$
where $h(t)$ is the impulse response. But in marginally stable systems, $h(t)$ does not decay so the integral ...
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Equalize Speaker using impulse response
So I have this school project where my aim is to improve a loudspeaker in general, my idea is to mesure the impulse response of the room using a mic, then use this mesure to conceive a loudspeaker ...
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Multilateration of Sound in 3D Space
TL:DR - How can you find the 3D coordinates of a emitter than transmits an impulse signal?
STORY:
I'm working on something to improve my bird-watching. I've got a camera that can take pictures of ...
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Impulse response of a causal system from transfer function in z-domain
The transfer function is $$H(z)=(z+1)/(z^2+z+0.5)$$
I need to find the impulse response h[n] of a causal system with x[n] as unit impulse.
I have tried to find the impulse response by the following ...
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Why use transfer functions than differential equations?
I have some simple questions regarding DSP and Control Systems, but found no simple answers. I just need simple and easy to understand answers, not complex answers with huge maths.
Why we use ...
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Homework Help: What does $h[0] = 1$ represent? What is $\ln \big| H(e^{j \omega})\big|$?
I have been staring at this problem for a week now...
Suppose $H(e^{j \omega})$ is the frequency response of a stable and causal minimum-phase discrete-time system with $h[0]=1$ ($h[n]$ is the ...
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Calculating impulse response of system
Given is the illustrated circuit diagram of a linear, time-invariant, time-discrete system:
How do I show that the total system has the impulse response $h[n] = aδ[n] + bδ [n - 1] + cδ [n - 2]$ and ...
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How do I calculate the impulse response of an ideal band-pass filter?
I understand the FR of an ideal BPF is just 1 between the two cutoff frequencies and 0 everywhere else above and below them both. But with arbitrary cutoffs, how would one find the IR of this ideal ...
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Add multiple aborption coefficients into virtual impulse response
I've got some code which creates a virtual impulse response of a room with arbitrary dimensions. I want to know, how can I add more than one absorption coefficient into it?
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BIBO Stability of an impulse response
I am trying to prove if $h_1[n] = 2^{-n} u[n]$ and $h_2[n] = (0.1)^n$ are BIBO stable or not, but I'm not sure if these analysis are correct. I'm having some trouble to understand this specific ...
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What Is the Derivative of the Function $ s \left( t \right) = \left( 1 - {e}^{\frac{-t}{RC}} \right) u \left( t \right) $?
What is the derivative of the following function
$$ s \left( t \right) = \left( 1 - {e}^{\frac{-t}{RC}} \right) u \left( t \right) $$
with respect to $t$, where $u(t)$ is a unit step ...
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Designing high-pass filters using impulse invariance
One of the main disadvantages of realizing digital filters using impulse invariance is aliasing. According to the Nyquist sampling criterion, in order for the frequency response of the digital filter ...
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How do I show an impulse response leads to a zero-phase frequency response?
I'm trying to understand how to show that with real coefficients, the phase response of a filter is 0. Here is the impulse response
$h[n] = b_1d[n+1] + b_0d[n] + b_1d[n-1]$
How should I approach ...
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How can I calculate Reverberation Time (RT60) from the Room Impulse Response using Python?
I have the following Room Impulse Response(RIR) in wave format here. I wanted to calculate Reverberation Time (RT60) of it by plotting its Energy Decay Curve using this Python code.
The RIR is ...
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unit step signal as sum of impulses from MIT OCW video
From MIT's OCW on Signals and Systems by A. Oppenheim, at 4:30 mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGk3w1b7UXQ&index=3&list=PLLNp7XoiSLQYygYw8Mzt763zZCQdzCZcd
He said that by forming the sum ...
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How to calculate time of arrival using room impulse response
I need to find the timestamp of arrival of a particular signal at a receiver location within a room. The known parameters are the room impulse response h for a ...
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impulse response of a system from its step response;confusion
If the step response of a system is given as $$c(t)=(10e^{-5t}-2e^{-10t}+1)u(t)$$
then its impulse response is _______?
My Approach:
we know: $$h(t)= \frac {d}{dt} c(t)$$
Process(1):
$$h(t)= \{ ...
