This paper presents performance analysis of an adaptive Volterra/Hybrid equalizer in a nonlinear magneto-optic data storage channel. In a data storage system, nonlinear intersymbol interference (ISI) is one of the limiting factors for high storage density. Volterra and Hybrid (combination of linear and Volterra) equalizers are proposed and developed for compensation of nonlinear ISI. The use of...

The present paper is concerned with the nonparametric identification of mechanical systems with mild nonlinearities using a Wiener-Volterra model. The paper employs some classical developed results to describe the discrete-time Volterra models using orthonormal Kautz functions. If the two parameters of these filter sets, associated with a Volterra series truncation, are properly designed, the n...

In this paper, we consider a class of impulsive stochastic Volterra-Levin equations. By establishing a new integral inequality, some sufficient conditions for the existence and global attractivity of periodic solution for impulsive stochastic Volterra-Levin equations are given. Our results imply that under the appropriate linear periodic impulsive perturbations, the impulsive stochastic Volterr...

The paper studies the finite-time blow-up theory for a class of nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations. The conditions for the occurrence of finite-time blow-up for nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations are provided. Moreover, the finite-time blow-up theory for nonlinear partial Volterra integro-differential equations with general kernels is also established using the blo...

We present a framework to apply Volterra series to analyze multilayered perceptrons trained to estimate the posterior probabilities of phonemes in automatic speech recognition. The identified Volterra kernels reveal the spectro-temporal patterns that are learned by the trained system for each phoneme. To demonstrate the applicability of Volterra series, we analyze a multilayered perceptron trai...

The Lotka-Volterra equations are a system of equations proposed to provide a simplified model of twospecies predator-prey population dynamics. In this paper, we investigate the problem of adaptive chaos control and synchronization of a generalized Lotka-Volterra system discovered by Samardzija and Greller (1988). The Samardzija-Greller model is a two-predator, one-prey generalization of the Lot...

A broad class of nonlinear systems can be modeled by the Volterra series representation. However, the practical use of such a representation is often limited due to the large number of parameters associated with the Volterra filter structure. This paper is concerned with the problem of identification of third-order Volterra systems. The SVD technique is used to represent the quadratic Volterra ...

Volterra series have been in the engineering literature for some time now, and yet there have been few attempts to measure Volterra kernels. This paper discusses techniques for measuring the Volterra kernels of weakly nonlinear systems. We introduce a new quick method for measuring the second Volterra kernel which is analogous to pseudo-noise testing of a linear device. To illustrate the discus...

We consider the hungry Volterra hierarchy from the view point of the multi boson KP hierarchy. We construct the hungry Volterra equation as the Bäcklund transformations (BT) which are not the ordinary ones. We call them “fractional ” BT. We also study the relations between the (discrete time) hungry Volterra equation and two matrix models. From this point of view we study the reduction from (di...

In this paper, the Kalman-Bucy filter is designed for an Ito-Volterra process over Ito-Volterra observations that cannot be reduced to the case of a differential observation equation. The Kalman-Bucy filter is then designed for an Ito-Volterra process over discontinuous Ito-Volterra observations. Based on the obtained results, the filtering problem over discrete observations with delays is solv...