15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ADAPTIVE STABILIZATION FOR NON-CONTROLLABLE TIME-VARYING PLANTS BY USING MULTIESTIMATION
S. Alonso-Quesada* and M. De La Sen**
Processes Research and Development Institute IIDP
Electricity and Electronics Department*
Automatic and Systems Engineering Department**
Faculty of Sciences of the Basque Country University
Leio (Bizkaia) – B.P. 644, 48080-Bilbao, Spain

This paper presents an indirect adaptive control scheme for nominally stabilizable, but possible non-controllable, continuous and time-varying systems with unmodelled dynamics. The control objective is the adaptive stabilization of the system. The scheme includes several estimation algorithms and a supervisor which selects the appropriate estimator keeping it in operation during at least a minimum residence time.
Keywords: Adaptive control, supervisory control, robust stabilizability, time-varying plants, estimation algorithms, pole assignment
Session slot T-Fr-A21: Posters of Learning, Stochastic, Fuzzy and Nerural Systems/Area code 3b : Adaptive Control and Tuning