Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator and Sensor Nonlinearities

An in-depth examination of intelligent approaches to increasing the accuracy of a variety of system components. Utilizing a unified, adaptive, inverse approach, the book offers electrical, mechanical, chemical, aeronautical and computer engineers methods for controlling many of the "hard" nonlinearities of frequently-employed control systems such as dead-zone, backlash and hysteresis. Discusses such nonlinearities at both the input and output points of a linear part and within both continuous time designs and discrete time designs.

Dead-Zone, Backlash, and Hysteresis. Inverse Models. Fixed Inverse Compensation. Adaptive Inverse Examples. Continuous-Time Adaptive Inverse Control. Discrete-Time Adaptive Inverse Control. Fixed Inverse Control for Output Nonlinearities. Adaptive Inverse Control for Output Nonlinearities. Adaptive Control of Partially Known Systems. Adaptive Control with Input and Output Nonlinearities. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.