ADAPTIVE PI CONTROLLER DESIGN TO CONTROL A MASS - DAMPER - SPRING PROCESS

In this paper, the authors have been applied the adaptive control to a mass-damper-spring. During the whole design process only parametric disturbances have been considered. Based on the uncertainty parameters (mass, damping constant, and spring) and by using a gradient method (the MIT rule), a PI adaptive controller is proposed and designed. The used gradient method (i.e. the MIT rule) allowed for the studied parameters to be varied in a predefined range. The whole design, as well as the experimental results, was done in Matlab/Simulink.