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Identification of dynamical systems from low-resolution quantized observations presents several challenges because of the limited amount of information available in the data and since proper algorithms have to be designed to handle the error due to quantization. In this article, we consider identification of infinite impulse response models from quantized outputs. Algorithms both for maximum-likelihood estimation and Bayesian inference are developed. Finally, a particle-filter approach is presented for recursive reconstruction of the latent nonquantized outputs from past quantized observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider the problem of identification for a class of nonlinear systems with Hammerstein structure, which is a combination of some basis functions for the static nonlinearity and finite impulse response models for the linear block under quantized output data. Following the empirical Bayes method, we model the impulse response of the system using a Gaussian process whose covariance matrix depends on some suitable kernels. Then, we compute the minimum mean-square error estimation of the impulse response via a special case of Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling approach, namely, Gibbs sampler. The estimation of the impulse response depends on the kernel hyperparameters, the noise variance and the coefficients of the static nonlinearity. These unknowns are estimated by the marginal likelihood maximization, which is solved via the expectation-conditional maximization algorithm combining the Gibbs sampler. The expectation-conditional maximization method is a variation of the standard expectation-maximization method for solving maximum-likelihood problems. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]