The radial basis function (RBF) network is a popular artificial neural network (ANN) architecture that has found wide-ranging applications in many diverse fields of engineering, see for example, (Chen et al., 1990; Leonard & Kramer, 1991; Chen et al., 1993; Caiti & Parisini, 1994; Gorinevsky et al., 1996; Cha & Kassam, 1996; Rosenblum & Davis, 1996; Refaee et al., 1999; Muraki et al., 2001; Muk...