CONTROL EDUCATION IN JAPAN WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON TEACHING EXACT MODEL MATCHING AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL

The situation of control education in Japan is introduced with special focus on teaching exact model matching and adaptive control. General comments on control education in Japan are presented in the first place, and then the author's experience in teaching exact model matching and adaptive control is introduced. It is emphsized that an adaptive control system with multiple control modes based on the principle of EMM with a disturbance predictor is very reliable and should be further developed toward the practical use in industry.