Design and Analysis of a Novel ${\cal L}_1$ Adaptive Control Architecture With Guaranteed Transient Performance

This paper presents a novel adaptive control architecture that adapts fast and ensures uniformly bounded transient response for system's both signals, input and output, simultaneously. This new architecture has a low-pass filter in the feedback loop and relies on the small-gain theorem for the proof of asymptotic stability. The tools from this paper can be used to develop a theoretically justified verification and validation framework for adaptive systems. Simulations illustrate the theoretical findings.