Abstract
In this article, adaptive control is investigated for a class of discrete-time multi-input-multi-output nonlinear systems in block-triangular form with uncertain couplings of delayed states among subsystems. Future states prediction is carried out to facilitate adaptive control design and auxiliary outputs are introduced to develop a novel compensation mechanism for the uncertain nonlinear couplings. By using Lyapunov method and ordering signals growth rate, it is rigorously proved that all the signals in the whole closed-loop systems are globally bounded and the output tracking errors asymptotically converge to zeros. The effectiveness of the proposed control is demonstrated in the simulation study.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Dr Hongbin Ma for his helpful comments. This work was partially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grants 61004059 and 60904086.