Model reference adaptive control with an augmented error signal

It is shown how globally stable model reference adaptive control systems may be designed when one has access to only the plant´s input and output signals. Controllers for single input-single output, nonlinear, nonautonomous plants are developed based on Lyapunov´s direct method and the Meyer-Kalman-Yacubovich lemma. Derivatives of the plant output are not required, but are replaced by filtered derivative signals. An augmented error signal replaces the error normally used, which is defined as the difference between the model and plant outputs. However, global stability is assured in the sense that the normally used error signal approaches zero asymptotically.