Adaptive low-gain integral control of linear systems with input and output nonlinearities

An adaptive low-gain integral control framework is developed for tracking constant reference signals in a context of finite-dimensional, exponentially stable, single-input, single-output linear systems with positive steady-state gain and subject to locally Lipschitz, monotone input and output nonlinearities of,a general nature: the input nonlinearity is required to satisfy an asymptotic growth condition (of sufficient generality to accommodate nonlinearities ranging from saturation to exponential growth) and the output nonlinearity is required to satisfy a sector constraint in those cases wherein the input nonlinearity is unbounded. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science BN. All rights reserved.