Adaptive control of a nonlinear dc motor drive using recurrent neural networks

A model-following adaptive control structure is proposed for the speed control of a nonlinear motor drive system and the compensation of the nonlinearities. A recurrent artificial neural network is used for the online modeling and control of the nonlinear motor drive system with high static and Coulomb friction. The neural network is first trained off-line to learn the inverse dynamics of the motor drive system using a modified form of the decoupled extended Kalman filter algorithm. It is shown that the recurrent neural network structure combined with the inverse model control approach allows an effective direct adaptive control of the motor drive system. The performance of this method is validated experimentally on a dc motor drive system using a standard personal computer. The results obtained confirm the excellent disturbance rejection and tracking performance properties of the system.