A Servomechanism Design for Nonlinear Systems with Arbitrary Relative Degree by Using Nonlinear Plug-in Adaptive Controller

This work considers an adaptive servosystem design for a class of nonlinear systems that can be transformed into a canonical form. Although our proposed compensator is based on nonlinear internal model principle, overall control system structure adopts plug-in manner, i.e. the compensator to achieve tracking and disturbance rejection is placed outside the existed feedback controller. Moreover such compensator can be designed by solving error feedback nonlinear regulation problem and by using recursive procedure. An adaptation mechanism is introduced to cope with the unknown parameters of exosystem.