15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
IDENTIFICATION OF LINEAR SYSTEMS WITH HARD INPUT NONLINEARITIES OF KNOWN STRUCTURE
Er-Wei Bai*
* Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University
of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 erwei@icaen.uiowa.edu

This paper studies identification of systems with input nonlinearities of known structure. For input nonlinearities parameterized by one parameter, a deterministic approach is proposed based on the idea of separable least squares. The identification problem is shown to be equivalent to an one-dimensional minimization problem. The method is very effective for several common static and non-static input nonlinearities. For a general input nonlinearity, a correlation analysis based identification algorithm is presented which is shown to be convergent.
Keywords: system identification, parameterestimation, nonlinear systems
Session slot T-Th-A01: Identification of Nonlinear Systems II/Area code 3a : Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing