Unfalsified Control Theory

Unfalsified Control Theory

Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Adaptive Control

Overview: M. G. Safonov. Data-Driven Behavioral Formulation of the Adaptive Feedback Control Problem (PowerPoint) [also available in HTML]. Talk, Poster Presentation, AFOSR Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Dayton, OH, August 2001.
Background and Philosophy: M. G. Safonov. Focusing on the knowable: Controller invalidation and learning. In A. S. Morse, editor, Control Using Logic-Based Switching, pages 224–233. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
Theory: M. G. Safonov and T. C. Tsao. The unfalsified control concept and learning. IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, AC-42(6):843–847, June 1997.
Design Studies:

Automatic PID tuning.. M. Jun and M. G. Safonov, Proc. IEEE CCA/CACSD, pages 328–333, Kohala Coast–Island of Hawaii, HI, August 22-27, 1999. Also available is a Demo for the example described in this paper (requires MATLAB^® and SimuLink^®).
Unfalsified direct adapative control of a two-link robot arm. T.-C. Tsao and M. G. Safonov, Proc. IEEE CCA/CACSD, Kohala Coast–Island of Hawaii, HI, August 22-27, 1999.
Robust switching missile autopilot. P. B. Brugarolas, V. Fromion, and M. G. Safonov, Proc. American Control Conf., pages 3665–3669, Philadelphia, PA, June 24-26, 1998.

Discussion and Controversy: Recent Advances in Robust Control, Feedback and Learning. M.G. Safonov. In S. O. R. Moheimani, editor, Perspectives in Robust Control, pages 283—296, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001.
Curing Model Mismatch Instability: Cost-detectability and Stability of Adaptive Control Systems. In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Seville, Spain, December 12-15, 2005.