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The aim of the given paper is the development of an approach for parametric identification of Wiener systems with piecewise linear nonlinearities, i.e., when the linear part with unknown parameters is followed by a saturation-like function with unknown slopes. It is shown here that by a simple data reordering and by a following data partition the problem of identification of a nonlinear Wiener system could be reduced to a linear parametric estimation problem. Afterwards, estimates of the unknown parameters of linear regression models are calculated by processing respective particles of input-output data. A technique based on ordinary least squares (LS) is proposed here for the estimation of parameters of linear and nonlinear parts of the Wiener system, including the unknown threshold of piecewise nonlinearity, too. The results of numerical simulation and identification obtained by processing observations of input-output signals of a discrete-time Wiener system with a piecewise nonlinearity by computer are given.

Least-squares method is the most popular method for parameter estimation. It is easy applicable, but it has considerable drawback. Under well-known conditions in the presence of noise, the LS method produces asymptotically biased and inconsistent estimates. One way to overcome this drawback is the implementation of the instrumental variable method. In this paper several modifications of this method for closed-loop system identification are considered and investigated. The covariance matrix of the instrumental variable estimates is discussed. A simulation is carried out in order to illustrate the obtained results.

The paper deals with the recursive identification of dynamic systems having noninvertible output characteristics, which can be represented by the Wiener model. A special form of the model is considered where the linear dynamic block is given by its transfer function and the nonlinear static block is characterized by such a description of the piecewise-linear characteristic, which is appropriate for noninvertible nonlinearities. The proposed algorithm is a direct application of the known recursive least squares method extended with the estimation of internal variables and enables the on-line estimation of both the linear block parameters and the parameters of some noninvertible nonlinearities and their changes. The feasibility of the proposed method is illustrated on examples of time-varying systems.

This paper presents an iterative autoregressive system parameter estimation algorithm in the presence of white observation noise. The algorithm is based on the parameter estimation bias correction approach. We use high order Yule–Walker equations, sequentially estimate the noise variance, and exploit these estimated variances for the bias correction. The improved performance of the proposed algorithm in the presence of white noise is demonstrated via Monte Carlo experiments.

The aim of the given paper is the development of optimal and tuned models and ordinary well-known on-line procedures of unknown parameter estimation for inverse systems (IS) using current observations to be processed. Such models of IS are worked out in the case of correlated additive noise acting on the output of the initial direct system (DS). The results of numerical investigation by means of computer (Table 1) are given.