The official textbook for the course is:

• [IS] Ioannou and Sun, Robust Adaptive Control, Prentice-Hall, 1996. (online)

Course material will more closely track the Lecture Notes of Naira Hovakimyan,

• Hovakinyam, Robust Adaptive Control: UIUC MechSE 598, 2009.

Other books on Adaptive Control from researchers in the field include:

• Krstic, Kanellakopoulos, and Kokotovic, Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
• Marino and Tomei, Nonlinear Control Design: Geometric, Adaptive, Robust, Prentice-Hall, 1995.
• Sastry and Bodson, Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence, and Robustness, Prentice-Hall, 1994. (online).

• Astolfi and Ortega, Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with Applications, 2008. (e-book through library)
• Hovakimyan and Cao, L$_1$ Adaptive Control Theory: Guaranteed Robustness with Fast Adaptation, 2010 (e-book through library).

• Narendra and Annaswamy, Stable Adaptive Control, Prentice-Hall, 1989.
• Slotine and Li, Applied Nonlinear Control, Prentice-Hall, 1991. (has chapter on Adaptive Control).
• Y. Kim and F.L. Lewis, High-Level Feedback Control with Neural Networks, World Scientific, Singapore, 1998.
• F.L. Lewis, S. Jagannathan, and A. Yesildirek, Neural Network Control of Robot Manipulators and Nonlinear Systems, Taylor and Francis, London, 1999. (online)