Adaptive Control: Stability | Convergence and Robustness (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)

With a focus on linear | continuous time | single-input | single-output systems | this volume surveys the major results and techniques of analysis in the field of adaptive control. The authors offer a clear | conceptual presentation of adaptive methods | enabling a critical evaluation of these techniques and suggesting avenues of further development.A brief historical overview of adaptive control is followed by a review of mathematical preliminaries and the development of several adaptive identification algorithms. Succeeding chapters examine averaging techniques | the robustness of adaptive schemes | and advanced topics — including the use of prior information and multivariable adaptive control — followed by a concise introduction to the control of a class of nonlinear systems. The treatment is largely self-contained | assuming only some graduate-level background in basic control systems and in linear systems theory.