Abstract:
Model structure selection is crucial in system identification and data-driven modelling. Many spurious candidate variables can influence the determination of model struct...View moreMetadata
Abstract:
Model structure selection is crucial in system identification and data-driven modelling. Many spurious candidate variables can influence the determination of model structures due to the lack of prior knowledge of the system of interest. The commonly used method is to test as many possible models as possible and select a set of best models. This study proposes a novel mask attention-based NARMRAX (MAB-NARMAX) modelling method for nonlinear dynamic system identification. The mask attention mechanism comes from the widely used neural network Transformer to reduce the dependency of the features and neurons. The performance of the proposed method is tested on three simulation datasets. Results show that the proposed MAB-NARMAX modelling framework has convincing multistep-ahead prediction performance for nonlinear system identification in that it can produce the precious model structure. Even when the data are polluted with high noise (resulting in low SNR), the proposed method can still generate reliable system models compared with the state-of-the-art machine learning methods, e.g., LASSO and LSTM.
Date of Conference: 01-03 September 2022
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 October 2022
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