Deadzone-Adapted Disturbance Suppression Control for Global Practical IOS and Zero Asymptotic Gain to Matched Uncertainties

Abstract: In this paper we study a special class of systems: time-invariant control systems that satisfy the matching condition for which no bounds for the disturbance and the unknown parameters are known. For this class of systems, we provide a simple, direct, adaptive control scheme that combines three elements: (a) nonlinear damping, (b) single-gain adjustment, and (c) deadzone in the update law. It is the first time that these three tools are combined and the proposed controller is called a Deadzone-Adapted Disturbance Suppression (DADS) Controller. The proposed adaptive control scheme achieves for the first time an attenuation of the plant state to an assignable small level, despite the presence of disturbances and unknown parameters of arbitrary and unknown bounds. Moreover, the DADS Controller prevents gain and state drift regardless of the size of the disturbance and unknown parameter.