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It is shown that the convergence rate and noise immunity of a parameter identifi cation experiment depend directly on the condition number of the input correlation matrix, a measure of excitation. The sensitivity of an identification experiment to unmodeled dynamics is also studied; a dimensionless measure of this sensitivity\u2014bias susceptibility\u2014is proposed and related to excitation. The issue of how exciting a trajectory may be is addressed, and a method is presented to maximize the exci tation. Two identification experiments reported in the litera ture are studied; analysis of these experiments shows that intuitively selected trajectories may provide poor excitation, and considerable improvement results from employing the optimization to maximize excitation. A typical improvement is the reduction of parameter convergence time from 15 min to 33 s. 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