“…SI mainly aims at obtaining a good quality model which can accurately describe the practical process dynamics based on the informative process data set (Yang and Yang, 2018;Ji et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2018;Yuan et al, 2017;Huang et al, 2018b). Since majority of the practical systems exhibit complicated nonlinear property, the approaches for nonlinear system identification with various types of models have been widely studied in the existing literature (Yang et al, 2018c;Yang and Yin, 2017;Chen et al, 2013;Xie et al, 2012;Guo et al, 2017). Among various kinds of different model structures, the main advantages of the state-space model (SSM) can be concluded as follows: The hidden inner dynamics of the system can be reflected by the latent state, while the latent state variable of the system is reflected by the SSM; The SSM is convenient for the system controller design and suitable for describing the multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) systems (Marconato et al, 2014).…”