Development of a novel robust identification scheme for nonlinear dynamic systems

This paper presents a set of single layer low complexity nonlinear adaptive models for efficient identification of dynamic systems in the presence of outliers in the training signal. The weights of the new models have been updated using a new robust learning algorithm. The proposed robust algorithm is based on adaptive minimization of Wilcoxon norm of errors. The computational complexity associated with the new models has further been reduced by processing the input in block form and using a newly derived robust block learning algorithm. Through exhaustive simulation study of many benchmark identification examples, it has been shown that in all cases, the new models provide enhanced and robust identification performance compared with that provided by the corresponding conventional squared error-based approaches.