Variable Structure Type MRACS to Time-Variable Plant

Abstract

This paper proposes a design scheme of variable structure (VS) type model reference adaptive control systems (MRACS) which is robust to a plant with time-variable parameters. In this design scheme, the influence of time-variable parameters is regarded as a disturbance to a nominal model of the plant and is eliminated by using a VS method. Furthermore, parameters of a controller are also adjusted by using the VS method.