Sensitivity Function Based Active Disturbance Rejection Control for the Plant with Unknown Order and Uncertain Relative Degree

2012 ◽  
Vol 542-543 ◽  
pp. 223-227
Author(s):  
Chun Zhe Zhao ◽  
Rong Xu ◽  
Jiang Xiong ◽  
Xiao Ran Lin

The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) design based on the sensitivity function is studied for the linear time-invariant SISO minimum-phase system with unknown order and uncertain relative degree. It is proved that ADRC can reject the disturbance and guarantee the close-loop stability provided that the relative degree of such plant is bounded.

Author(s):  
Dirk Söffker ◽  
Peter C. Müller

Abstract The well-known theory of disturbance rejection control and the experience of using a generalized technique with universal fault model for building observers and regulators for the estimation and compensation of disturbances and unmodeled or uncertain effects as well, could be used for controlling dynamic systems with time varying parameters and nonlinearities. Based on a linear time-invariant model the effects of non-linearities and unmodeled dynamics are estimated by an extended observer scheme. Using this information these dynamic effects will be compensated by the developed compensation scheme. Here also different compensation techniques of disturbance rejection control are discussed, compared, and modified. The simulation example of an inverted flexible pendulum shows the efficiency of the method controlling an unstable mechanical system without exact knowledge of structure and parameters of nonlinearity and time-variance.


Abstract This paper deals with the disturbance rejection, parameter uncertainty cancelation, and the closed-loop stabilization of the water level of the four-tank nonlinear system. For the four-tank system with relative degree one, a new structure of the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) has been presented by incorporating a tracking differentiator (TD) in the control unit to obtain the derivate of the tracking error. Thus, the nonlinear-PD control together with the TD serves as a new nonlinear state error feedback. Moreover, a sliding mode extended state observer is presented in the feedback loop to estimate the system's state and the total disturbance. The proposed scheme has been compared with several control schemes including linear and nonlinear versions of ADRC techniques. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves excellent results in terms of disturbance elimination and output tracking as compared to other conventional schemes. It was able to control the water levels in the two lower tanks to their desired value and exhibits excellent performance in terms of Integral Time Absolute Error (ITAE) and Objective Performance Index (OPI).


ROBOT ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao LIU ◽  
Tao WANG ◽  
Wei FAN ◽  
Tong ZHAO ◽  
Junzheng WANG

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