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20162026
most citedIdentification of block-oriented nonlinear systems starting from linear approximations: A survey

237 citations · 445 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

eess.SY2026

Least Costly Space-Filling Experiment Design for the Identification of a Nonlinear System

Máté Kiss, Maarten Schoukens, Roland Tóth

The quality of an estimated nonlinear model highly depends on the data quality that was used for the system identification. By using a Gaussian Process-based optimal input design a…

eess.SY2026

Identification of Port-Hamiltonian Differential-Algebraic Equations from Input-Output Data

N. Hagelaars, G. J. E. van Otterdijk, S. Moradi +3

Many models of physical systems, such as mechanical and electrical networks, exhibit algebraic constraints that arise from subsystem interconnections and underlying physical laws.…

eess.SY2020★ 4 cited

Best Linear Approximation of Nonlinear Continuous-Time Systems Subject to Process Noise and Operating in Feedback

Rik Pintelon, Maarten Schoukens, John Lataire

In many engineering applications the level of nonlinear distortions in frequency response function (FRF) measurements is quantified using specially designed periodic excitation sig…

eess.SY2018

Structure detection of Wiener-Hammerstein systems with process noise

Erliang Zhang, Maarten Schoukens, Johan Schoukens

Identification of nonlinear block-oriented models has been extensively studied. The presence of the process noise, more precisely its location in the block-oriented model influence…

eess.SY2018★ 36 cited

Structure Discrimination in Block-Oriented Models Using Linear Approximations: A Theoretic Framework

Johan Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Yves Rolain +5

In this paper we show that it is possible to retrieve structural information about complex block-oriented nonlinear systems, starting from linear approximations of the nonlinear sy…

eess.SY2018★ 13 cited

Extending the Best Linear Approximation Framework to the Process Noise Case

Maarten Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Tadeusz P. Dobrowiecki +1

The Best Linear Approximation (BLA) framework has already proven to be a valuable tool to analyze nonlinear systems and to start the nonlinear modeling process. The existing BLA fr…

eess.SY2018★ 9 cited

Comparison of several data-driven nonlinear system identification methods on a simplified glucoregulatory system example

Anna Marconato, Maarten Schoukens, Koen Tiels +3

In this paper, several advanced data-driven nonlinear identification techniques are compared on a specific problem: a simplified glucoregulatory system modeling example. This probl…

eess.SY2018★ 15 cited

Fast Identification of Wiener-Hammerstein Systems using Discrete Optimization

M. Schoukens, G. Vandersteen, Y. Rolain +1

This letter proposes a fast identification algorithm for Wiener-Hammerstein systems. The computational cost of separating the front and the back linear time invariant block dynamic…

eess.SY2017★ 47 cited

Parametric identification of parallel Wiener-Hammerstein systems

Maarten Schoukens, Anna Marconato, Rik Pintelon +2

Block-oriented nonlinear models are popular in nonlinear modeling because of their advantages to be quite simple to understand and easy to use. To increase the flexibility of singl…

eess.SY2016★ 22 cited

Initial estimates for Wiener-Hammerstein models using phase-coupled multisines

Koen Tiels, Maarten Schoukens, Johan Schoukens

Block-oriented models are often used to model nonlinear systems. These models consist of linear dynamic (L) and nonlinear static (N) sub-blocks. This paper addresses the generation…

eess.SY2016★ 45 cited

Filter-based regularisation for impulse response modelling

Anna Marconato, Maarten Schoukens, Johan Schoukens

In the last years, the success of kernel-based regularisation techniques in solving impulse response modelling tasks has revived the interest on linear system identification. In th…

eess.SY2016★ 237 cited

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

Maarten Schoukens, Koen Tiels

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 identificat…

eess.SY2016★ 17 cited

Obtaining the Pre-Inverse of a Power Amplifier using Iterative Learning Control

Maarten Schoukens, Jules Hammenecker, Adam Cooman

Telecommunication networks make extensive use of power amplifiers to broaden the coverage from transmitter to receiver. Achieving high power efficiency is challenging and comes at…