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Universal Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems

Systems and Control 2021-11-09 v5 Robotics Systems and Control

Abstract

This work develops a new direct adaptive control framework that extends the certainty equivalence principle to general nonlinear systems with unmatched model uncertainties. The approach adjusts the rate of adaptation online to eliminate the effects of parameter estimation transients on closed-loop stability. The method can be immediately combined with a previously designed or learned feedback policy if a corresponding model-parameterized Lyapunov function or contraction metric is known. Simulation results of various nonlinear systems with unmatched uncertainties demonstrates the approach.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15815,
  title  = {Universal Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems},
  author = {Brett T. Lopez and Jean-Jacques E. Slotine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15815},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Added Proposition 1 and 2. Included supplementary equations for Example 1

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