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International audience; This paper deals with the identification of Wiener models that involve backlash operators bordered by possibly noninvertible parametric lines. The latter are also allowed to cross each other making possible to account for general-shape static nonlinearities. The linear dynamic subsystem is not-necessarily parametric but is BIBO stable. A frequency identification method is developed that provides estimates of the nonlinear operator parameters as well as estimates of the linear subsystem frequency gain. The method involves standard and separable least squares estimators that all are shown to be consistent. Backlash operators and memoryless nonlinearities are handled within a unified framework.

The Hammerstein identification problem is studied using a prediction error method in a separable least squares framework. Thus, the identification is recast as an optimization over the parameters used to describe the nonlinearity. Under certain conditions the identification problem is quasiconvex. First, the identification problem is shown to be quasiconvex under certain assumptions, including the use of an IID input. Next, the IID requirement is relaxed, and a sufficient condition for quasiconvexity is derived. The results are illustrated using a series of simulations.

In this paper, the parametrization of state-space systems by data driven local coordinates as introduced by (McKelvey et al., 2003) is modified. This modification leads to an alternative analogous parametrization which can be used for a suitable concentrated likelihood-type criterion function, where the concentration step can be done by a generalized least squares step. An obvious consequence is the reduced number of parameters resulting in less computational burden, but, of course, the criterion function itself is changed by the concentration step. The resulting new parametrization is called slsDDLC, and its topological and geometrical properties are investigated in detail.