Model Reference Adaptive Control for DC motor based on Simulink

Sometimes the conventional feedback control can not work well to cope with the changes that vary in its dynamic system. The parameters of the dynamic system that changes with time lead to a conventional feedback control system is not able to maintain control. This is caused by circumstances which are nonlinear and receive many disturbance so that the transient response of the system to be less precise and accurate to the desired steady state conditions. To overcome these problems, this paper presents an adaptive control system which can cope with the change of the dynamic DC motor system. The adaptive control system used is Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) which contain four part. They are reference model, adaptation mechanism, plant, and control law. We designs DC motor plant by using Simscape in Simulink. An ideal response for reference model is designed by modeling the dynamic DC motor. Design of an adaptation mechanism with MIT rule and control law with Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller are present. It can affect the response of adaptive control system and matching the desired ideal response from reference model even when the system receives a disturbance.