This paper examines the design of model predictive control using nonminimal state space models, in which the state variables are chosen as the set of measured input and output variables and their past values. It shows that the proposed design approach avoids the use of an observer to access the state information and, as a result, the disturbance rejection, particularly the system input disturba...

Aiming at a class of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with uncertainty, a sliding mode control algorithm based on neural network disturbance observer is designed and applied to ship yaw and roll joint stabilization. The nonlinear disturbance observer is finished by radial basis function neural network and with that a terminal sliding mode control algorithm is proposed. The asymptoti...

This paper compares three different position controllers of electrical drives equipped by binomial [Formula: see text] th order filters, which are offering filtering properties important in a quantization noise attenuation. To demonstrate their impact, non-filtered P-PI control is considered, as reference. The comparative framework includes filtered control, linear pole assignment PD with distu...

This paper is concerned with robust observer design for linear time-delay systems in the presence of unstructured uncertainties and of disturbances as well. The proposed method ensures the stability of the observer and the H∞ attenuation of uncertainty and disturbance effects on the estimated error. The result is developed ina delay dependent framework and the observer gain matrix is obtained b...

The paper describes the control and friction compensation of a robot with flexible joints (the DLR medical robot), which has strong mechanical couplings within pairs of joints realized with a differential gear-box. In consideration of this coupling, a MIMO state controller is designed for the strongly coupled joints. In addition a disturbance observer is developed to compensate the nonlinear ef...

This paper addresses the problem of energy-efficient power assist control for quasiperiodic motions. The simplest assist method would be to apply additional torque in proportion to the instantaneous value of torque generated by a user. In our previous study, it was shown that energy efficiency improves by flattening the torque pattern. To cope with the frequency fluctuation of our motion, we in...