RISE-Based Adaptive Control of a Control Affine Uncertain Nonlinear System With Unknown State Delays

Abstract

A continuous robust adaptive control method is designed for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown constant time-delays in the states. Specifically, a robust adaptive control method and a delay-free gradient-based desired compensation adaptation law (DCAL) are utilized to compensate for unknown time-delays, linearly parameterizable uncertainties, and additive bounded disturbances for a general nonlinear system. Despite these disturbances, a Lyapunov Krasovskii-based analysis is used to conclude that the system output asymptotically tracks a desired time varying bounded trajectory.