In this paper, we extend existing theory on nonlinear unknown input observer design to a wider class of nonlinear systems where the systems are subject to unknown input and output disturbances and experience faults. The approach used is to decouple the faults and unknown disturbances from the rest of the system through a series of transformations on state and output equations. Once total distur...

In this paper a nonlinear state observer based on a distributed parameter model is proposed for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). The estimation technique is implemented using a model-based nonlinear observer with a nonlinear disturbance observer in parallel. To implement the model, a nite element discretisation is performed to take advantage of the boundary conditions of the proble...

This paper articulates, from a theoretical perspective, a new emerging control technology, known as active disturbance rejection control to this day. Three cornerstones toward building the foundation of active disturbance rejection control, namely, the tracking differentiator, the extended state observer, and the extended state observer based feedback are expounded separately. The paper tries t...

Abstract—In this paper, we first construct a new state and disturbance estimator using discrete-time proportional plus integral observer to estimate the system state and the unknown external disturbance for the discrete-time system with an input-to-output direct-feedthrough term. Then, the generalized optimal linear quadratic digital tracker design is applied to construct a proportional plus in...

A dynamic model including non-idealities for a permanent magnet linear synchronous motor (PMLSM) is postulated and verified. The non-idealities acting on the physical linear motor are measured and analyzed. These experimental results are utilized in the model. The verified simulation model is used in developing a force disturbance compensator for the velocity controller of the motor. The force ...

Abstract— In this paper, an H∞/LPV observer to be used in an automotive suspension control application is proposed. The system considered is a road disturbance affected quarter car equipped with an industrial SOBEN damper. This observer is designed in the H∞ framework in order to minimize the effect of the unknown road disturbance on the estimated states. The damper studied in this paper is hig...

This paper describes a robust approach exploiting input-output decoupling controller for mobile manipulators. The robust controller consists of using a classical proportional-derivative (PD) feedback structure to stabilize the position error plus an additional disturbance observer (DOB) to compensate external disturbances and uncertainties. Simulation results on a mobile platform with 2-DOF man...

In this paper, we propose a distributed robust controlmethod for synchronised tracking of networked Euler–Lagrange systems, where the time-varying reference trajectory is sent to only a subset of the agents. It is assumed that the agents can exchange information with their local neighbours on a bidirectionally connected communication graph. In the local controller equipped in each generalised c...

Abstract A sliding mode control (SMC) with improved exponent reaching law based on disturbance observer (DOB) is proposed for the robot control, to solve the problem of robot system which is vulnerability to external interferences and has some uncertainties. The disturbance observer (DOB) would detect and compensate external disturbances and uncertainties in the robot system, so that the moveme...

Direct impedance control (DIC) technique used for an electroacoustic absorber in this paper requires a pair of pressure and velocity sensor. However, it can be quite costly to develop array system of this electrostatic absorber for acoustically large space. To overcome this problem, in this paper instead of using velocity sensor, disturbance-observer-type velocity estimator is applied to DIC te...