Kalman filter-based adaptive control for networked systems with unknown parameters and randomly missing outputs

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive control for networked control systems with unknown model parameters and randomly missing outputs. In particular, for a system with the autoregressive model with exogenous input placed in a network environment, the randomly missing output feature is modeled as a Bernoulli process. Then, an output estimator is designed to online estimate the missing output measurements, and further a Kalman filter-based method is proposed for parameter estimation. Based on the estimated output and the available output, and the estimated model parameters, an adaptive control is designed to make the output track the desired signal. Convergence properties of the proposed algorithms are analyzed in detail. Simulation examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.