Robust adaptive tracking with an additional plant identifier for a class of nonlinear systems

In this paper, we develop two new model reference adaptive control (MRAC) schemes for a class of nonlinear dynamic systems that is robust with respect to an uncertain state (output) dependent nonlinear perturbations and/or external disturbances with unknown bounds. The design is based on a controller parametrization with an adaptive integral action. Two types of adaptive controllers are considered—the state feedback controller with a plant parameter identifier, and the output feedback controller with a linear observer.