Vladimir V. Kokotovic

Fuel delivery system sensitivity based adaptive pressure control

Fast micro processors have enabled, if not on line, than still off line implementation of computationally more intensive methodologies. Because of that it is of interest to revisit some of earlier adaptive control methods and investigate them in original or modified forms and compare the performance with some newer methodologies. In this paper Sensitivity Based Adaptive Control has been challenged with the non-linear plant that has uncertainties, time delays, and plant parameters variations. Fuel delivery system examples have been selected for Sensitivity Based Adaptive Control bench marking. Because of the simplicity of this methodology resulting in lower computational burdens and its applicability to many practical engineering applications Sensitivity Based Adaptive Control has lead us to opinion that Renaissance of this method may soon come.