Direct Adaptive Control Algorithms:: Theory and Applications [Paperback]

Suitable either as a reference or as a text for a graduate course in adaptive control systems, this book is a self-contained compendium of easily implementable adaptive control algorithms that have been developed and applied by the authors for over 10 years. These algorithms do not require explicit process parameter identification and have been successfully applied to a wide variety of engineering problems including flexible structure control, blood pressure control and robotics. In general, these algorithms are suitable for a wide class of multiple input-output control systems containing significant uncertainty as well as disturbances.
Suitable either as a reference or as a text for a graduate course in adaptive control systems, this book is a self-contained compendium of easily implementable adaptive control algorithms that have been developed and applied by the authors for over 10 years. These algorithms do not require explicit process parameter identification and have been successfully applied to a wide variety of engineering problems including flexible structure control, blood pressure control and robotics. In general, these algorithms are suitable for a wide class of multiple input-output control systems containing significant uncertainty as well as disturbances.
1 Introduction.- 1.1 Definition of the Problem.- 1.2 Prologue to Simple Adaptive Control.- 1.3 Background on Adaptive Control Algorithms.- 1.4 Objectives and Overview.- 1.4.1 Objectives.- 1.4.2 Relation with Other Texts.- 1.4.3 Overview of Text.- 2 Basic Theory of Simple Adaptive Control.- 2.1 Model Following.- 2.2 Output Model Following.- 2.2.1 Command Generator Tracker Description.- 2.2.2 Modifications for the Tracking of A Larger Class of Input Commands.- 2.2.3 The General Tracking Problem.- 2.3 Stability and Positivity Concepts.- 2.3.1 Introduction: Stability with Fixed Controllers Versus Nonlinear Adaptive Controllers.- 2.3.2 Basic Stability Concepts.- 2.3.3 Positive Real Analysl.