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Swarm-based metaheuristics have shown significant progress in solving different complex optimization problems, including the parameter identification of linear, as well as nonlinear, systems. Nonlinear systems are inherently stiff and difficult to optimize and, thus, require special attention to effectively estimate their parameters. This study investigates the parameter identification of an input nonlinear autoregressive exogenous (IN-ARX) model through swarm intelligence knacks of the nonlinear marine predators' algorithm (NMPA). A detailed comparative analysis of the NMPA with other recently introduced metaheuristics, such as Aquila optimizer, prairie dog optimization, reptile search algorithm, sine cosine algorithm, and whale optimization algorithm, established the superiority of the proposed scheme in terms of accurate, robust, and convergent performances for different noise and generation variations. The statistics generated through multiple autonomous executions represent box and whisker plots, along with the Wilcoxon rank-sum test, further confirming the reliability and stability of the NMPA for parameter estimation of IN-ARX systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, fractional order calculus has become an important mathematical tool for effectively solving complex problems through better modeling with the introduction of fractional differential/integral operators; fractional order swarming heuristics are also introduced and applied for better performance in different optimization tasks. This study investigates the nonlinear system identification problem of the input nonlinear control autoregressive (IN-CAR) model through the novel implementation of fractional order particle swarm optimization (FO-PSO) heuristics; further, the key term separation technique (KTST) is introduced in the FO-PSO to solve the over-parameterization issue involved in the parameter estimation of the IN-CAR model. The proposed KTST-based FO-PSO, i.e., KTST-FOPSO accurately estimates the parameters of an unknown IN-CAR system with robust performance in cases of different noise scenarios. The performance of the KTST-FOPSO is investigated exhaustively for different fractional orders as well as in comparison with the standard counterpart. The results of statistical indices through Monte Carlo simulations endorse the reliability and stability of the KTST-FOPSO for IN-CAR identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]