Toolbox for Discovering Dynamic System Relations via TAG Guided Genetic Programming

Abstract Data-driven modeling of nonlinear dynamical systems often requires an expert user to take critical decisions a priori to the identification procedure. Recently, an automated strategy for data driven modeling of single-input single-output (SISO) nonlinear dynamical systems based on genetic programming (GP) and tree adjoining grammars (TAG) was introduced. The current paper extends these latest findings by proposing a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) TAG modeling framework for polynomial NARMAX models. Moreover, we introduce a TAG identification toolbox in Matlab that provides implementation of the proposed methodology to solve multi-input multi-output identification problems under NARMAX noise assumption. The capabilities of the toolbox and the modeling methodology are demonstrated in the identification of two SISO and one MIMO nonlinear dynamical benchmark models.