Accelerated Performance and Accelerated Learning with Discrete-Time High-Order Tuners

Abstract

We consider two high-order tuners that have been shown to have accelerated performance, one based on Polyak's heavy ball method and another based on Nesterov's acceleration method. We show that parameter estimates are bounded and converge to the true values exponentially fast when the regressors are persistently exciting. Simulation results corroborate the accelerated performance and accelerated learning properties of these high-order tuners in comparison to algorithms based on normalized gradient descent.