Effects of the design parameters of multimodel adaptive control on the performance of a flexible transmission system

Design parameters selection in the multimodel adaptive control based on switching and tuning will be investigated. Some design parameters like number of fixed and adaptive models, forgetting factor and minimum time delay between switchings will be considered. A recently developed parameter adaptation algorithm based on closed‐loop output error will be compared with the classical least‐squares prediction error algorithm in the multimodel adaptive control. The effects of these parameters on the performance in tracking and in regulation of a flexible transmission system will be studied via several simulation examples. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.