A neural network-based model reference adaptive control approach (MRAC) for ship steering systems is proposed in this paper. For the nonlinearities of ship steering system, performances of traditional adaptive control algorithms are not satisfactory in fact. The presented MRAC system utilizes RBF neural network to approximate the unknown nonlinearities in order to get a high adaptive control pe...

Although model reference adaptive control has been used in numerous applications to achieve system performance without excessive reliance on dynamical system models, the presence of actuator dynamics can seriously limit the stability and the achievable performance of adaptive controllers. In this paper, an linear matrix inequalities-based hedging approach is developed and evaluated for model re...