The Design of Stable Nonlinear Controllers for a Class of Nonlinear Plants Based on Neutral Networks

Extensive empirical evidence has been published in the literature to demonstrate the enormous potential of multilayer neural network controllers. In spite of these results, practical implementation of these control schemes has been held back by the lack of an analytical proof of the stability of the controlled system. The objective of this paper is to present a nonlinear control scheme based on multilayer neural networks for the control of a class of nonlinear plants. The stability of the closed loop system will be rigorously established.