“…Unfortunately, there are only few contributions in the literature on the identification of systems with hard nonlinearities including input backlash (Tao and Canudas de Wit 1997;Vo¨ro¨s 1997;Sun, Liu, and Sano 1999;Bai 2002;Cerone and Regruto 2007;Giri, Rochdi, Chaoui, and Brouri 2008). One often used approach how to overcome the problems with the backlash in control systems is based on its replacing by the deadzone (Aguilar, Orlov, Cadiou, and Merzouki 2007;Djeziri, Merzouki, Ould-Bouamama, and Dauphin-Tanguy 2007;Merzouki, Davila Montoya, Fridman, and Cadiou 2007a;Merzouki, Medjaher, Djeziri, and Ould-Bouamama 2007b).…”