Recursive Least Squares and Multi-innovation Gradient Estimation Algorithms for Bilinear Stochastic Systems

Bilinear systems are a special class of nonlinear systems. Some systems can be described by using bilinear models. This paper considers the parameter identification problems of bilinear stochastic systems. The difficulty of identification is that the model structure of the bilinear systems includes the products of the states and inputs. To this point, this paper gives the input-output representation of the bilinear systems through eliminating the state variables in the model and derives a least squares algorithm and a multi-innovation stochastic gradient algorithm for identifying the parameters of bilinear systems based on the least squares principle and the multi-innovation identification theory. The simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithms are effective for identifying bilinear systems.