Adaptive Control

From the preface:
Adaptive control has been a remarkable field for industrial and academic research since
1950s. Since more and more adaptive algorithms are applied in various control applications,
it is considered as important for practical implementation. As it can be confirmed from the
increasing number of conferences and journals on adaptive control topics, it is certain that
the adaptive control is a significant guidance for technology development.
Also adaptive control has been believed as a breakthrough for realization of intelligent
control systems. Even with the parametric and model uncertainties, adaptive control enables
the control system to monitor the time varying changes and manipulate the controller for
desired performance. Therefore adaptive control has been considered to be essential for time
varying multivariable systems. Moreover, now with the advent of high-speed microproces-
sors, it is possible to implement the innovative adaptive algorithms even in real time situa-
tion.
With the efforts of many control researchers, the adaptive control field is abundant in
mathematical analysis, programming tools, and implementational algorithms. The authors
of each chapter in this book are the professionals in their areas. The results in the book
introduce their recent research results and provide new idea for improved performance in
various control application problems.