This paper suggests a simple convex optimization approach to state-feedback adaptive stabilization problem for a class of discrete-time LTI systems subject to polytopic uncertainties. The proposed method relies on estimating the uncertain parameters by solving an online optimization at each time step, such as a linear or quadratic programming, and then, on tuning the control law with that information, which can be conceptually viewed as a kind of gain-scheduling or indirect adaptive control. Specifically, an admissible domain of stabilizing state-feedback gain matrices is designed offline by means of linear matrix inequality problems, and based on the online estimation of the uncertain parameters, the state-feedback gain matrix is calculated over the set of stabilizing feedback gains. The proposed stabilization algorithm guarantees the asymptotic stability of the overall closed-loop control system. An example is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.A CONVEX OPTIMIZATION APPROACH TO ADAPTIVE STABILIZATION 1117 deal of research has been dedicated to developing more general types of gain-scheduling controllers, for instance, path-dependent control laws [20] and polynomially parameter-dependent control laws [21,22].However, this is no longer the case for uncertain LTI systems in the sense that the uncertain parameters are literally assumed not to be measurable. For this reason, the development of less conservative design methods for the static state-feedback has become a fundamental and challenging problem. In the late 1990s, the so-called extended Schur complement and slack variable approaches were developed by the pioneering work [8,9], which played a significant role in the subsequent development of the LMI-based robust analysis and control approaches. More recently, an important advance on robust stabilization of discrete-time LTI systems was accomplished in [23,24], where the so-called periodically time-varying state-feedback controller was proposed and turned out to be effective in reducing the conservatism in the static state-feedback approaches.On the other hand, adaptive control technology [25-29] has a long history of interest in the control community [30][31][32][33] and has attracted considerable attention to date. One of the advantages of the adaptive control approach is the ability to adjust the controller so as to cope with complex, uncertain, and highly nonlinear nature of the plant especially in the absence of complete information on the system. The adaptive control strategies may be broadly classified into the following two categories: direct [29] and indirect [27,28] adaptive controls. The indirect adaptive control is a feedback control scheme in which the plant dynamics is estimated first, and the feedback controller is calculated by exploiting the estimation [34,35], while in the direct case, the ideal control law is approximated without the estimation of the plant.The philosophy of adaptive control and the gain-scheduling control leads us to the key motivation for the main re...