Decentralized adaptive control for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems with unknown interactions

This paper presents a decentralized adaptive controller for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems with unknown subsystems and interactions. A direct adaptive controller is devised based on Lyapunov stability analysis so that the stability of the closed loop system is guaranteed by introducing a suitably driven adaptive rule. The adaptive controller proposed in this paper can guarantee the stability of the closed-loop system without knowing the sign of the controller coefficient. To show the effectiveness of the proposed decentralized adaptive controller, a nonlinear system is chosen as a case study. Simulation results are very promising.