% This script will load a sample file obtained from a frequency sweep % Labview program of a high pass filter and estimate the cut-off from % all available data using the magnitude of the transfer function: % % vout s/wc % ------ = ----------------------- % vin 1 + s/wc % % where s is complex frequency and wc is the cut-off frequency in % radian per second. From the cut-off with a known resistor value % the capacitor value is also estimated through 1/(RC) = fc r = 10.4e3; % Measured value of resistor m = dlmread('hpfs1.txt'); % Read in data file create by sweep program % The format of matrix m is 4 columns where column 1 is the frequency in Hz, % column 2 is the input peak to peak amplitude, column 3 is the output peak % to peak and column 4 is the phase in degrees of input phase minus output phase. % Create vector of possible cut-off frequencies % with range over suspected region in small increments wc = 2*pi*[10:1:500]; % In radians per second % The measured transfer function amplitudes ms = (m(:,3) ./ m(:,2)); % Ouput over input % Frequency points tested f = m(:,1); % Frequency in Hz s = j*2*pi*f; % Complex Frequency in radians per second % Loop to compute squared error for every iteration of test values err = []; % clear/initalize array to store error values in for k=1:length(wc) testtf = abs((s/wc(k)) ./ (1+(s/wc(k)))); err(k) = sum( (testtf- ms).^2); % Compute sum of all deviations for total error end % Find point at which the minimum error occured [mv, mp] = min(err); %(mv is the minimum value and mp is the index where the minimumn occurs) wcest = wc(mp(1)); % Estimated cut-off frequency disp([ 'Estimated Cut-off Frequency: ' num2str(wcest/(2*pi)) 'Hz' ]) c = 1/(r*wcest); disp([ 'Estimated Capacitor Value: ' num2str(c) ]) % Create a dense frequency axis to plot the parametric TF % at estimated cut-off fplot = [min(f):.5:max(f)]; splot = j*pi*2*fplot; tf = (splot/(wcest)) ./ (1 + (splot/(wcest))); % Plot TF with estimated cut-off and data points and compare % to actual data points figure(1) % Bode Plot semilogx(fplot, 20*log10(abs(tf)),'b',f,20*log10((ms)),'xr') title('Comarison of best fit TF Magnitude to Data Points') xlabel('Hz') ylabel('dB') figure(2) % % regular plot (no log scale) plot(fplot, abs(tf),'b',f,(ms),'xr') title('Comarison of best fit TF Magnitude to Data Points') xlabel('Hz') ylabel('Gain') figure(3) % Plot error curve plot(wc/(2*pi),err) title('Suared Error for each guess of a cut-off frequency') xlabel('Test Cut-off Frequency in Hz') ylabel('Squared Error')