Signal Processing Utilities

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Utilities for signal processing

signals.pSpect(data, rate)[source]

Power spectrum

Parameters:

data : array, shape (N,)

measurement data

rate : float

sampling rate [Hz]

Returns:

powerspectrum : array, shape (N,)

signals.savgol(x, window_size=3, order=2, deriv=0, rate=1)[source]

Smooth (and optionally differentiate) data with a Savitzky-Golay filter. The Savitzky-Golay filter removes high frequency noise from data. It has the advantage of preserving the original shape and features of the signal better than other types of filtering approaches, such as moving averages techhniques.

Parameters:

y : array_like, shape (N,) or (N,m)

the values of the time history of the signal.

window_size : int

the length of the window. Must be an odd integer number.

order : int

the order of the polynomial used in the filtering. Must be less then window_size - 1.

deriv : int

the order of the derivative to compute (default = 0 means only smoothing)

rate : sampling rate (in Hz; only used for derivatives)

Returns:

ys : ndarray, shape same as y

the smoothed signal (or it’s n-th derivative).

Notes

The Savitzky-Golay is a type of low-pass filter, particularly suited for smoothing noisy data. The main idea behind this approach is to make for each point a least-square fit with a polynomial of high order over a odd-sized window centered at the point.

The data at the beginning / end of the sample are deterimined from the best polynomial fit to the first / last datapoints. This makes the code a bit more complicated, but avoids wild artefacts at the beginning and the end.

Cutoff-frequencies For smoothing (deriv=0), the frequency where the amplitude is reduced by 10% is approximately given by:

f_cutoff = sampling_rate / (1.5 * look)

For the first derivative (deriv=1), the frequency where the amplitude is reduced by 10% is approximately given by:

f_cutoff = sampling_rate / (4 * look)

References

[R1]A. Savitzky, M. J. E. Golay, Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures. Analytical Chemistry, 1964, 36 (8), pp 1627-1639.
[R2]Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, B.P. Flannery Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 9780521880688
[R3]Siegmund Brandt, Datenanalyse, pp 435

Examples

>>> t = np.linspace(-4, 4, 500)
>>> y = np.exp( -t**2 ) + np.random.normal(0, 0.05, t.shape)
>>> ysg = savgol(y, window_size=31, order=4)
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> plt.plot(t, y, label='Noisy signal')
>>> plt.plot(t, np.exp(-t**2), 'k', lw=1.5, label='Original signal')
>>> plt.plot(t, ysg, 'r', label='Filtered signal')
>>> plt.legend()
>>> plt.show()

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