A parameter adaptive control structure for linear multivariable systems

This paper presents an adaptive control structure which can be used to assign all poles and zeros of a continuous-time linear multivariable system represented by an (m times m) strictly proper transfer matrixT(s), providedT(s)has no right-half plane zeros. The controller parameters can be directly estimated from input-output data. The paper also serves to point out the type of a priori information necessary for multivariable adaptive controller design. This information is a natural extension of that required in the scalar case.