Adaptive stabilization and resonance suppression

Control systems can drift into instability or, less catastrophically, exhibit resonance behaviour. One role for adaptive controllers is to learn sufficient information concerning the dominant closed-loop system mode so as to apply effective feedback to dampen these modes. In such situations the adaptive loop augments the fixed controller feedback loop. This paper presents an algorithm for adaptive resonance suppression and provides simulation results to study its behaviour in the presence of high-order unmodelled dynamics. The algorithm appears particularly useful for enhancing existing fixed controller designs.