On-line direct control design for nonlinear systems

Abstract An approach to design a feedback controller for nonlinear systems directly from experimental data is presented. Improving over a recently proposed technique, which employs exclusively a batch of experimental data collected in a preliminary experiment, here the control law is updated and refined during real-time operation, hence enabling an on-line learning capability. The theoretical properties of the described approach, in particular closed-loop stability and tracking accuracy, are discussed. Finally, the experimental results obtained with a water tank laboratory setup are presented.

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