LOW-ORDER MULTIVARIABLE ADAPTIVE-CONTROL WITH APPLICATION TO FLEXIBLESTRUCTURES

All adaptive controllers require a certain amount of prior information regarding the plant to be controlled to achieve the desired control o bjectives. In the context of multivariable adaptive control, not only is the prior information quite significant, but also the complexity of the adaptive controller is too high. In this paper, we introduce a lo w-order multivariable adaptive controller that is easy to implement, a nd requires less prior information than most other adaptive controller s.