A direct adaptive simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (DA SP
SA) control system with a diagonal recurrent neural network (DRNN) controll
er is proposed. The DA SPSA control system with DRNN has simpler architectu
re and parameter vector size that is smaller than a feedforward neural netw
ork (FNN) controller. The simulation results show that it has a faster conv
ergence rate than FNN controller. It results in a steady-state error and is
sensitive to SPSA coefficients and termination condition. For trajectory c
ontrol purpose, a hybrid control system scheme with a conventional PID cont
roller is proposed.