Adaptive Control of a First-Order System Providing Linear-Like Behaviour and Asymptotic Tracking

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2021-07-19

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Qazi, Hassaan Ali

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Miller, Daniel E.
Nielsen, Christopher

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University of Waterloo

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Adaptive control is an approach used to deal with systems having uncertain and/or time-varying parameters. In this thesis, we consider the problem of designing an adaptive controller for a discrete-time first-order plant. Recently, Shahab et.al. considered this problem and proposed an approach which provides linear-like behaviour: exponential stability and a convolution bound on the input-output behaviour, together with robustness to slow time-variations and unmodelled dynamics. However, asymptotic tracking of a general reference signal was not provided. Here, we extend the aforementioned work with the aim to achieve asymptotic tracking while retaining linear-like closed-loop behaviour. We replace this uncertainty set with a pair of convex sets, one for each sign of the input gain, which enables us to use two parameter estimators – one for each convex set. We design these estimators using the modified version of the original projection algorithm. For each estimator, there is the corresponding one-step-ahead control law. A dynamic performance signal based switching rule is then adopted that decides which controller should be used at each time step. It is shown that the proposed approach preserves linear-like behaviour. In addition to that, we also have shown asymptotic trajectory tracking for two different circumstances: when the reference signal is asymptotically strongly persistently exciting of order two, and for a fairly general reference signal but the plant is unstable. Numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.

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adaptive control, exponential stability, linear-like behaviour, convolution bound

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