Direct nonlinear control design: The virtual reference feedback tuning (VRFT) approach

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 14-27

  Campi, Marco C ^a   Savaresi, Sergio M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Controller tuning; Data based tuning; Direct control; Model reference control; Nonlinear systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; THEOREM PROVING;

CONTROLLER TUNING; DATA BASED TUNING; DIRECT CONTROL; MODEL REFERENCE CONTROL;

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 31444450515     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2005.861689     Document Type: Article

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