Identification of Hammerstein-Wiener models

This paper develops and illustrates a new maximum-likelihood based method for the identification of Hammerstein–Wiener model structures. A central aspect is that a very general situation is considered wherein multivariable data, non-invertible Hammerstein and Wiener nonlinearities, and coloured stochastic disturbances both before and after the Wiener nonlinearity are all catered for. The method developed here addresses the blind Wiener estimation problem as a special case.