DIRECT ADAPTIVE RAPID TRACKING OF SHORT COMPLEX TRAJECTORIES

A direct adaptive rapid tracking methodology for tracking complex traj ectories in short-duration, linear, possibly slowly varying, and/or im precisely known, industrial processes is proposed. The rapid tracking is accomplished by injecting a supplemental control signal to the inpu t of the plant. The direct adaptive control scheme adapts the stabiliz ing controller to that which will yield fast convergence of the supple mental control learning process. The complete controlled system is cap able of tracking closely very complex short reference trajectories, ev ert in the presence of plant input limitations (saturation).