Abstract The use of adaptive controllers requires the pre-setting of a number of controller parameters. The sum of such user-specified parameters varies in different controller packages, and determines to a large degree how well a controller may be tailored in order to handle a difficult control problem. In this paper we investigate the use of an expert-system as an aid when choosing the user-specified parameters. The incentive for studying this is to try to simplify the commissioning stage, e.g., by excluding the need for experts in adaptive control, while, at the same time, being able to have a controller which is closely linked to the control-loop in question. The expert system is implemented on an IBM PC-АТ using the shell Insight 2, while a rather general adaptive control package, ADAPREG, is used as the controller. Some simulation results are given as well as a discussion on the experience gained in this study.
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