Identification of block-oriented nonlinear systems starting from linear approximations: A survey

M Schoukens, K Tiels - Automatica, 2017 - Elsevier
Block-oriented nonlinear models are popular in nonlinear system identification because of
their advantages of being simple to understand and easy to use. Many different identification …

Identification of Wiener–Hammerstein systems by a nonparametric separation of the best linear approximation

M Schoukens, R Pintelon, Y Rolain - Automatica, 2014 - Elsevier
Wiener–Hammerstein models are flexible, well known and often studied. The main
challenge in identifying a Wiener–Hammerstein model is to distinguish the linear time …

Identification of Wiener–Hammerstein models: Two algorithms based on the best split of a linear model applied to the SYSID'09 benchmark problem

J Sjöberg, L Lauwers, J Schoukens - Control Engineering Practice, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper describes the identification of Wiener–Hammerstein models and two recently
suggested algorithms are applied to the SYSID'09 benchmark data. The most difficult step in …

Nonlinear LFR block-oriented model: Potential benefits and improved, user-friendly identification method

L Vanbeylen - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, there is a high need for accurate, parsimonious nonlinear dynamic models.
Block-oriented nonlinear model structures are known to be excellent candidates for this task …

Static nonlinearity handling using best linear approximation: An introduction

P Csurcsia - Pollack Periodica, 2013 - akjournals.com
The engineers and scientists want mathematical models of the observed system for
understanding, design and control. Most of these systems are nonlinear. There is not a …

[PDF][PDF] Identification of parallel block-oriented models starting from the best linear approximation

M Schoukens - Brussels, Belgium: Vrije Universiteit Brussel …, 2015 - researchportal.vub.be
Many systems over different fields of engineering exhibit a nonlinear dynamic behavior.
Block-oriented models are often used to model nonlinear dynamical systems (eg chemical …

WH‐EA: an evolutionary algorithm for Wiener‐Hammerstein system identification

J Zambrano, J Sanchis, JM Herrero, M Martínez - Complexity, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Current methods to identify Wiener‐Hammerstein systems using Best Linear Approximation
(BLA) involve at least two steps. First, BLA is divided into obtaining front and back linear …

Initialization of nonlinear state-space models applied to the Wiener–Hammerstein benchmark

A Marconato, J Sjöberg, J Schoukens - Control Engineering Practice, 2012 - Elsevier
In this work a new initialization scheme for nonlinear state-space models is applied to the
problem of identifying a Wiener–Hammerstein system on the basis of a set of real data. The …

[PDF][PDF] Volterra series estimation in the presence of prior knowledge

G Birpoutsoukis - 2018 - researchportal.vub.be
The content of the current thesis can be scientifically categorized in the field of System
Identification. The introductory chapter contains a brief presentation of the purpose of this …

[PDF][PDF] Tackling two drawbacks of polynomial nonlinear state-space models

A Van Mulders - 2012 - researchportal.vub.be
This introduction first gives an idea of what system identification (or modeling) is, where it is
applied, how a model can be obtained and what affects its quality. Next, the difference …