“…Offline iterative control (OIC) requires sufficient data to shape the command signal and reduce the acceleration tracking error. Repetitive excitations may cause premature damage to the specimen (Pipeleers and Swevers, 2010), while the adaptive controller allows online adjustment of its parameters to obtain the desired output. The commonly used ones include minimal control synthesis (MCS) (Stoten and Gómez, 2001;Gizatullin and Edge, 2007;Stoten and Shimizu, 2007;Shen et al, 2011b) adaptive inverse control (AIC) (Salehzadeh-Nobari et al, 1997;Karshenas et al, 2000;Shen et al, 2011a,b;Gang et al, 2013) and self-tuning control (Ghalibafian et al, 2004;Plummer, 2007a,b).…”