title: Robust adaptive control of nonaffine nonlinear plants with small input signal changes.
abstract: Assuming small input signal magnitudes, ARMA models can approximate the NARMA model of nonaffine plants. Recently, NARMA-L1 and NARMA-L2 approximate models were introduced to relax such input magnitude restrictions. However, some applications require larger input signals than allowed by ARMA, NARMA-L1 and NARMA-L2 models. Under certain assumptions, we recently developed an affine approximate model that eliminates the small input magnitude restriction and replaces it with a requirement of small input changes. Such a model complements existing models. Using this model, we present an adaptive controller for discrete nonaffine plants with unknown system equations, accessible input-output signals, but inaccessible states. Our approximate model is realized by a neural network that learns the unknown input-output map online. A deadzone is used to make the weight update algorithm robust against modeling errors. A control law is developed for asymptotic tracking of slowly varying reference trajectories.
authors.affiliation: Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37203-3401, USA. adetona@coe.tsuniv.edu
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Adetona
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sathananthan
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Keel
mesh_terms: D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics