Performance Study of different Model Reference Adaptive Control Techniques applied to a DC Motor for Speed Control

The objective of this work is to apply Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) using Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rule and MRAC using Lyapunov method to control the speed of a Direct Current (DC) motor system. The speed control of DC motor is one of the widely used industrial controls due its specific characteristics. Different values of adaptation gains are taken for comparative analysis in MATLAB Simulink environment. A detail comparative performance analysis has been stated with different MRAC strategies applied to the DC motor system.