Hutchinson, James H.2014-03-142014-03-141990-06-05etd-05022009-040532http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42400The method of Pseudo-Linear Identification (PLID) is developed for application in an adaptive control loop. The effects of noise are investigated for the case of full-order system identification, and the results are applied to the use of PLID as a reduced-order system estimator. A self-tuning regulator (STR) is constructed using PLID and the effects of reducing the expected order of the system are demonstrated. A second adaptive control algorithm is presented wherein the STR controller is varied to achieve some degree of closeness to a given model (model-reference adaptive control).v, 80 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1990.H873Kalman filtering -- ResearchThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05022009-040532/