Application of delay-dependent adaptive control to a continuous stirred tank reactor

The main contribution of this work is the application of delay-dependent adaptive control techniques to control nonlinear continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) model with state delay. The delay-dependent adaptive control problem is first formulated and stabilizing adaptive control algorithms are developed and then applied to the CSTR process model. The CSTR model includes a nonlinear perturbation which is assumed to have a norm that is bounded by a scaled norm of the state vector. Here, we consider two cases where the weight of the state norm is assumed to be known and unknown. Simulation results show the efficacy of the delay-dependent adaptive control schemes in controlling the CSTR nonlinear process model.