IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.46, No.12, 2035-2037, 2001
Nonlinear adaptive controller with integral action
This note reveals a new significant property of adaptive controller design technique proposed in [1]. Namely, it is shown that with the use of special plant model parametrization the standard backstepping design results in an adaptive controller with integral action. The latter means that the controller completely rejects constant input disturbances. It is shown that the revealed property can be extended to nonlinear and nonadaptive cases.