Adaptive Control Tutorial

Petros Ioannou is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems and Director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He also holds a courtesy appointment with USC's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Ioannou is the author or coauthor of eight books and over 200 research papers. His research interests include adaptive control, neural networks, nonlinear systems, vehicle dynamics and control, intelligent transportation systems, and marine transportation. Baris Fidan is a researcher at the Systems Engineering and Complex Systems Program of National ICT Australia and the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering of the Australian National University in Canberra. His research interests include adaptive and nonlinear control, switching and hybrid systems, autonomous formations, sensor networks, mechatronics, and various control applications, including high-performance and hypersonic flight control, semiconductor manufacturing process control, and disk-drive servo systems.

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1. Introduction; 2. Parametric models; 3. Parameter identification: continuous time; 4. Parameter identification: discrete time; 5. Continuous-time model reference adaptive control; 6. Continuous-time adaptive pole placement control; 7. Adaptive control for discrete-time systems; 8. Adaptive control of nonlinear systems; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.