Identification and nonlinearity compensation of hysteresis using NARX models

This paper deals with two problems: the identification and compensation of hysteresis nonlinearity in dynamical systems using nonlinear polynomial autoregressive models with exogenous inputs (NARX). First, based on gray-box identification techniques, some constraints on the structure and parameters of NARX models are proposed to ensure that the identified models display a key feature of hysteresis. In addition, a more general framework is developed to explain how hysteresis occurs in such models. Second, two strategies to design hysteresis compensators are presented. In one strategy, the compensation law is obtained through simple algebraic manipulations performed on the identified models. In the second strategy, the compensation law is directly identified from the data. Both numerical and experimental results are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed procedures. Also, it has been found that the compensators based on gray-box models outperform the cases with models identified using black-box techniques.