Adaptive Control of Nonsmooth Dynamic Systems

Covers many of the non-smooth, non-linear phenomena.

Many of the non-smooth, non-linear phenomena covered in this well-balanced book are of vital importance in almost any field of engineering. Contributors from all over the world ensure that no one area's slant on the subjects predominates.

New Models and Identification Methods for Backlash and Gear Play.- Adaptive Dead Zone Inverses for Possibly Nonlinear Control Systems.- Deadzone Compensation in Motion Control Systems Using Augmented Multilayer Neural Networks.- On-line Fault Detection, Diagnosis, Isolation and Accomodation of Dynamical Systems with Actuator Failures.- Adaptive Control of Systems with Actuator Failures.- Multi-mode System Identification.- On Feedback Control of Processes with "Hard" Nonlinearities.- Adaptive Friction Compensation for Servo Mechanisms.- Relaxed Controls and a Class of Active Material Actuator Models.- Robust Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems with Dynamic Backlash-like Hysteresis.- Adaptive Control of a Class of Time-delay Systems in the Presence of Saturation.- Adaptive Control for Systems with Input Constraints: A Survey.- Robust Adaptive Control of Input Rate Constrained Discrete Time Systems.- Adaptive Control of Linear Systems with Poles in the Closed LHP with Constrained Inputs.- Adaptive Control with Input Saturation Constraints.- Adaptive Control of Linear Systems with Unknown Time Delay.