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The focus of such an idea is to design an appropriate experiment so that the departure from normal working conditions during the identification task is minimized. In this paper, the adaptive filtering (AF) scheme for plant model parameter estimation is proposed. The experimental results are obtained using the nonlinear interacting water tanks system. The adaptive filtering is expressed by minimizing the error between the system and the plant model outputs subject to the white noise signal affecting system output. This measurement error is quantified by the comparison of Minimum Error Entropy Renyi (MEER), Least Entropy Like (LEL), Least Squares (LS), and Least Absolute Deviation (LAD) estimators, respectively. The plant model parameters were obtained using sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm. The robustness tests for the double-tank water system parameter estimators are performed using the ellipsoidal confidence regions. The effectiveness analysis for the above-mentioned estimators relies on the total number of iterations and the number of function evaluation comparisons. The main contribution of this paper is the evaluation of different estimation methods for the nonlinear system identification using various excitation signals. 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