Online Adaptive Critic Robust Control of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems With Unknown Dynamics

This paper concerns the optimal model reference adaptive control problem for unknown discrete-time nonlinear systems. For such problem, it is challenging to improve online learning efficiency and guaranteeing robustness to the uncertainty. To this end, we develop an online adaptive critic robust control method. In this method, a critic network and a new supervised action network are constructed to not only improve the real-time learning efficiency, but also obtain the optimal control performance. By combining the designed compensation control term, robustness is further guaranteed by compensating the uncertainty. The comparative simulation study is conducted to show the superiority of our developed method. Copyright (C) 2020 The Authors.