Safe Adaptive Control: Data-Driven Stability Analysis and Robust Synthesis

By Margareta Stefanovic and Michael G. Safonov

Safe Adaptive Control gives a formal and complete algorithm for assuring the stability of a switched control system when at least one of the available candidate controllers is stabilizing. The possibility of having an unstable switched system even in the presence of a stabilizing candidate controller is demonstrated by referring to several well-known adaptive control approaches, where the system goes unstable when a large mismatch between the unknown plant and the available models exists ("plant-model mismatch instability"). Sufficient conditions for this possibility to be avoided are formulated, and a "recipe" to be followed by the control system designer to guarantee stability and desired performance is provided. The problem is placed in a standard optimization setting. Unlike the finite controller sets considered elsewhere, the candidate controller set is allowed to be continuously parametrized so that it can deal with plants with a very large range of uncertainties.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849964521
• ISBN13: 9781849964524
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"