Introduction to a Showcase of Adaptive Controller Designs

The Adaptive Control literature contains hundreds of technical papers on many different approaches to the subject. However, engineers who are not specialists in adaptive theory often have difficulty selecting which approach to use in any given problem. This invited session addresses this situation by defining a set of standard problems which are then solved by several of today's distinct approaches to adaptive control. This introductory paper explains the motivation for this session and then defines the problems and guidelines which will be followed in subsequent presentations.