Direct Just-in-time Methods for Nonlinear Control Design

Based on input and output data pairs of nonlinear systems, this paper proposes a simple and effective Just-In-Time (JIT) method, called Direct JIT Control, for nonlinear control design. It uses an inverse model of controlled plant to compute an initial control action, and then adapts the initial control action by adding a fine-tuning control action, depended on the errors between the real outputs and the expected reference signals. Meanwhile, the proposed JIT method accomplishes the adaptation of the inverse model just simply by means of the refreshment of input and output data pairs. In addition, the JIT modeling technique guarantees this method to obtain an approximate inverse model of the controlled nonlinear plant in the neighborhood of a query. Based on a ...