Globally stable direct fuzzy model reference adaptive control

In the paper a fuzzy adaptive control algorithm is presented. It belongs to the class of direct model reference adaptive techniques based on a fuzzy (Takagi-Sugeno) model of the plant. The plant to be controlled is assumed to be nonlinear and predominantly of the first order. Consequently, the resulting adaptive and control laws are very simple and thus interesting for use in practical applications. The system remains stable in the presence of unmodelled dynamics (disturbances, parasitic high-order dynamics and reconstruction errors are treated explicitly). The global stability of the overall system is proven in the paper, i.e. it is shown that all signals remain bounded while the tracking error and estimated parameters converge to some residual set that depends on the size of disturbance and high-order parasitic dynamics. The proposed algorithm is tested on a simulated three-tank system. Its performance is compared to the performance of a classical MRAC. (C) 2002 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.