In this paper, a resetting mechanism is proposed to enhance the transient performance of model reference adaptive control. While the suggested method has a simple structure, it is capable of taking into account both the desired steady-state behavior and the transient response, simultaneously. Whenever the transient specification is not satisfying, there is a jump in the controller parameters. This jump is determined by designing an optimal reset law. At the reset times, the after-reset values of parameters are calculated based on a minimization problem. The considered cost function is a mixed H 2 /H ∞ criterion, which minimizes the tracking error. The optimization problem is converted to an LMI formulation, and the reset law is designed by solving this LMI at certain reset times. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach, simulation results are presented.
KEYWORDSlinear matrix inequality, model reference adaptive control, reset control, transient performance improvement 390 control acts as a disturbance that is in conflict with the control objective. There are also some research studies that use intelligent algorithms in MRAC to improve transient performance; however, they do not involve any analytical support for their statement. 16,17 There are also some research studies in robust adaptive control that propose some methods to improve transient performance. [18][19][20][21] In the work of Yucelen and Haddad, 18 an adaptive controller has been proposed in which the transient and steady-state bounds in terms of L 1 -norms of the error dynamic are obtained. In fact, the final bound of the system response can be determined independent of the system adaptation rate. In another work of Yucelen and Haddad, 19 to achieve fast adaptation, an adaptive control architecture with a high-gain learning rate has been presented. The controller includes an update law with a modification term that filters out the high-frequency content and makes the reduction of the high-frequency oscillations. Yucelen et al 20 proposed a new adaptive controller in which the reference system is modified by a mismatch term containing the high-frequency content of the closed-loop error dynamic. The suggested reference system causes the frequency content of the error dynamic to be restricted and allows fast adaptation without occurring high-frequency oscillations. In the work of Yucelen and Johnson, 21 a command governor-based adaptive controller that can achieve fast dominance of system uncertainties just by adjusting a given command was proposed.On the other hand, recently, a reset controller, which is a specific class of hybrid controllers, was introduced as a strong approach capable of overwhelming fundamental limitations of linear systems in transient performance. [22][23][24] The first reset controller named Clegg integrator was presented in 1958. 25 Clegg showed that, by using a reset mechanism in an integrator, it has the same magnitude as a pure integrator but with 38.1 • phase lag compared with the phase lag of a standard integra...