System identification via Adaptive Tabu Search

This article presents a novel Adaptive Tabu Search (ATS) method. Our additional back-tracking and adaptive search radius mechanisms enhance the conventional Tabu Search (TS) method to achieve faster and more efficient search. The main application of the ATS method discussed in this article is identification of system models. Examples cover hot-air tube, system with torsional resonance, static nonlinearity and inverted pendulum.