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We consider adaptive control problem in presence of nonlinear parametrization of uncertainties in the model. It is shown that despite traditional approaches require for domination in the control loop during adaptation, it is not often…
Recently it has been shown, in several settings, how to carry out adaptive control for an LTI plant so that a convolution bound holds on the closed-loop behavior; this, in turn, has been leveraged to prove robustness of the closed-loop…
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