A hyperstability criterion for model reference adaptive control systems

This paper considers the stability problem of the model reference adaptive control systems by means of the properties of hyperstable systems. A theorem concerning the hyperstability of model reference adaptive control systems is presented. This theorem directly gives a structure of the adaption mechanism. The results presented here include all the results obtained by Butchart, Shackcloth, Parks, Winsor, Roy, and Dressler. The hyperstability approach presented in this paper also allows for other solutions to the adaption mechanism and represents a general method for studying this type of adaptive systems. The results are directly applicable to the design of model reference adaptive control systems and they were verified for some particular cases by analogical simulation.