Effects of the design parameters of multimodel adaptive control on the performance of a flexible transmission system

Design parameters selection in the multimodel adaptive control based on swi tching and tuning will be investigated. Some design parameters like number of fixed and adaptive models, forgetting factor and minimum time delay betw een switchings will be considered. A recently developed parameter adaptatio n algorithm based on closed-loop output error will be compared with the cla ssical least-squares prediction error algorithm in the multimodel adaptive control. The effects of these parameters on the performance in tracking and in regulation of a flexible transmission system will be studied via severa l simulation examples. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.