Model reference robust adaptive control without a priori knowledge of the high frequency gain

A novel model-reference robust adaptive controller that does not require a priori knowledge of the high-frequency-gain sign is proposed. The scheme is applicable to minimum-phase plants of arbitrary relative degree and ensures that in the absence of unmodeled dynamics the tracking error converges to zero and all the signals remain bounded. The control law uses a particular projected parameter vector instead of the current estimates to avoid division by zero.>