  A modification to the ${\cal L}_1$ control framework for uncertain systems
with actuator delay is presented. Specifically, a time delay is introduced in
the control input of the state predictor to compensate for the destabilizing
effect of input delay in the plant. For this modified framework, the analysis
shows that the output of the adaptive system closely follows the behavior of a
suitably defined, nonadaptive, stable reference system provided that a
delay-dependent stability condition is satisfied and the adaptive gain is
chosen sufficiently large. The set of combinations of input delay and
compensation delay for which the stability condition is satisfied contains an
open set of pairs of positive values provided that a filter bandwidth,
characteristic of ${\cal L}_1$ adaptive control is chosen sufficiently large.
The efficacy of the delay compensation is illustrated by a simple example. A
numerical continuation is also performed to explore the stability region for a
case where this can be approximated a priori.
