Development of nonlinear disturbance observer based control and nonlinear PID: A personal note

This paper gives an overview of early development of nonlinear disturbance observer design technique and the disturbance observer based control (DOBC) design. Some critical points raised in the development of the methods have been reviewed and discussed which are still relevant for many researchers or practitioners who are interested in this method. The review is followed by the development of a new type of nonlinear PID controller for a robotic manipulator and its experimental tests. It is shown that, under a number of assumptions, the DOBC consisting of a predictive control method and a nonlinear disturbance observer could reduce to a nonlinear PID with special features. Experimental results show that, compared with the predictive control method, the developed controller significantly improves performance robustness against uncertainty and friction. This paper may trigger further research and interests in the development of DOBC and related methods, and building up more understanding between this group of control methods with comparable ones (particularly control methods with integral action).     

Finite dimensional disturbance observer based control for nonlinear parabolic PDE systems via output feedback

This paper considers the problem of finite dimensional disturbance observer based control (DOBC) via output feedback for a class of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) systems. The external disturbance is generated by an exosystem modeled by ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which enters into the PDE system through the control channel. Motivated by the fact that the dominant dynamic behavior of parabolic PDE systems can be characterized by a finite number of degrees of freedom, the modal decomposition technique is initially applied to the PDE system to derive a slow subsystem of finite dimensional ODEs. Subsequently, based on the slow subsystem and the exosystem, a disturbance observer (DO) and a slow mode observer (SMO) are constructed to estimate the disturbance and the slow modes. Moreover, an observation spillover observer (OSO) is also constructed to cancel approximately the effect of the observation spillover. Then, a finite dimensional DOBC design via output feedback is developed to estimate and compensate the disturbance, such that the closed-loop PDE system is exponentially stable in the presence of the disturbance. The condition for the existence of the proposed controller is given in terms of bilinear matrix inequality. Two algorithms based on the linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique are provided for solving control and observer gain matrices of the proposed controller. Finally, the developed design method is applied to the control of a one-dimensional diffusion-reaction process to illustrate its effectiveness.     

基于干扰观测器的一类奇异系统H∞控制

提出了一种基于干扰观测器的奇异系统鲁棒H_∞控制方法.外部干扰广泛存在于奇异系统中,为了降低其对系统的影响,设计了一种奇异系统干扰观测器以估计系统干扰.然后给出闭环系统相容的条件,设计一种基于干扰观测器的鲁棒控制器,并基于李雅普诺夫稳定性理论证明了闭环系统的渐近稳定性,通过设计指标函数得到闭环系统具有鲁棒性能的条件.相对于传统鲁棒控制方法,基于干扰观测器的方法降低了系统设计的保守性.最后,通过仿真实验验证了所提出方法的正确性和有效性.     

一类含输入时滞非线性系统的干扰观测器控制

基于干扰观测器控制（Disturbance-observer-based control,DOBC）作为一种有效的干扰补偿策略取得了广泛的应用. 然而,当干扰和控制输入不能在同一时刻进入控制通道时,外部信号很难得到实时估计和补偿.提出一种复合DOBC结构,包括干扰观测、干扰预测和反馈调节三个部分.该方法的特点是即使一类非线性系统存在输入时滞,同样可以继承传统DOBC的优点. 最后,通过构造辅助观测器给出了预测误差以及复合闭环系统的稳定性分析方法.     

Composite Nonlinear Bilateral Control for Teleoperation Systems With External Disturbances

This paper presents a new composite nonlinear bilateral control method based on the nonlinear disturbance observer (NDOB) for teleoperation systems with external disturbances. By introducing the estimations of NDOB and systems' nominal nonlinear dynamics into controller design, a NDOB based composite nonlinear bilateral controller is constructed to attenuate the influence of disturbance and uncertain nonlinearities. As compared with the existing bilateral control methods which usually achieve force haptic (i.e., contact force tracking) through a passive way, the newly proposed method has two major merits: 1) asymptotical convergence of both position and force tracking errors is guaranteed; 2) disturbance influence on force tracking error dynamics is rejected through the direct feedforward compensation of disturbance estimation. Simulations on a nonlinear teleoperation system are carried out and the results validate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.      

Nonlinear predictive controller for a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive

A nonlinear predictive controller (NPC) for a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is proposed in this paper. Its objective is high performance tracking of the rotor speed trajectory while maintaining the d-axis component of the armature current at zero. The load torque and the mismatched parameters are considered to be unknown perturbations. To ensure robustness against these perturbations, a disturbance observer is designed using a new gain function, and integrated into the control law. The combination of the nonlinear predictive controller and the disturbance observer works as a nonlinear controller. The overall closed-loop system is proved to be globally asymptotically stable depending on the design parameters. The validity of the proposed controller was tested by simulations. Satisfactory results were obtained with respect to the tracking of the speed trajectory and disturbance rejection.     

非平衡负载下轮式移动机器人的抗扰PID控制

在非平衡负载条件下,轮式移动机器人(WMR)的前进、转向速度耦合,影响着轨迹跟踪和避障等运动控制性能.为此,本文提出了一种基于抗扰PID(DR–PID)控制器的WMR速度调节主动抗扰(ADR)控制策略.首先,建立WMR的速度耦合模型,引入解耦矩阵减小静态耦合作用;然后,基于一类改进干扰观测器(DOB)控制方法,设计一种具有ADR能力的PID控制器,即DR–PID,用于WMR的速度分散调节.进一步,考虑高频增益不匹配/不确定性,分析闭环系统稳定性条件.所得结论揭示了PID控制器的抗扰机理;最后,在不平衡负载条件下开展WMR运动控制实验研究,实验结果验证了所提方法的有效性.     

A GESO based MPC approach to contour error control of networked motion control system

This paper presents a generalised extended state observer (GESO) based model predictive control (MPC) approach to contour error control for networked multi-axis motion system (NMAMS) with network-induced delays. First, the uncertainties induced by the network-induced delays are modelled as an additive bounded disturbance, and a novel model predictive controller based on the GESO is designed for the uniaxial trajectory tracking control system. The GESO is used to estimate the system state and the disturbance simultaneously, and the effects of the uncertainties induced by the delays are eliminated by the proposed GESO based controller. Then the contour error estimation method is adopted, and a PID controller is designed to compensate the contour error. Finally, experiments are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

基于扩张状态观测器的车辆横摆稳定模型预测控制器设计

针对车辆横摆稳定性控制问题,本文提出一种基于扩张状态观测器的线性模型预测控制器设计方法.首先,将非线性车辆模型线性化,建立带有模型误差干扰项的线性模型,其中线性化导致的模型误差采用扩张状态观测器估计得到,并证明了观测器的稳定性.然后基于此模型设计线性预测控制器,近似实现了非线性预测控制器的控制效果,同时降低了计算量.最后,通过不同路况下的仿真实验结果,验证了所提方法的计算性能和控制效果.     

一类非最小相位系统未知频率正弦干扰的观测器设计

近年来,前馈补偿技术得到广泛研究,其可以提高系统的控制精度.对于非最小相位系统,很难给出干扰和可测信息的直接关系,此外,频率的不确定性以及估计值之间的耦合会导致大量冗余参数的运算.现有的自适应方法存在估计值之间的耦合,会增加干扰估计误差收敛性能分析难度.而基于干扰观测器控制(DOBC)通过调节控制器和观测器参数,可以同时对多源不确定进行补偿和抑制.基于此,提出一种分步式观测器设计方法.首先设计一种辅助滤波器和观测器对未知频率正弦干扰参数进行估计,同时给出干扰的等效形式;然后利用估计值构造观测器得到输入干扰状态,从而将这类非线性系统的干扰抵消问题转换为线性系统的观测器设计问题;最后通过李雅普诺夫定理和数值仿真验证所提出方法的有效性.     

Low dimensional disturbance observer‐based control for nonlinear parabolic PDE systems with spatio‐temporal disturbances

In this paper, a design problem of low dimensional disturbance observer‐based control (DOBC) is considered for a class of nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) systems with the spatio‐temporal disturbance modeled by an infinite dimensional exosystem of parabolic PDE. Motivated by the fact that the dominant structure of the parabolic PDE is usually characterized by a finite number of degrees of freedom, the modal decomposition method is initially applied to both the PDE system and the PDE exosystem to derive a low dimensional slow system and a low dimensional slow exosystem, which accurately capture the dominant dynamics of the PDE system and the PDE exosystem, respectively. Then, the definition of input‐to‐state stability for the PDE system with the spatio‐temporal disturbance is given to formulate the design objective. Subsequently, based on the derived slow system and slow exosystem, a low dimensional disturbance observer (DO) is constructed to estimate the state of the slow exosystem, and then a low dimensional DOBC is given to compensate the effect of the slow exosystem in order to reject approximately the spatio‐temporal disturbance. Then, a design method of low dimensional DOBC is developed in terms of linear matrix inequality to guarantee that not only the closed‐loop slow system is exponentially stable in the presence of the slow exosystem but also the closed‐loop PDE system is input‐to‐state stable in the presence of the spatio‐temporal disturbance. Finally, simulation results on the control of temperature profile for catalytic rod demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于广义预测控制和扩展状态观测器的永磁同步电机控制

在电动汽车等工况复杂的系统中,实现永磁同步电机驱动系统的快响应和强鲁棒性控制历来是研究的重点和难题.预测控制策略可实现快速的动态响应,但依赖电机的数学模型.本文结合广义预测控制理论和扩展状态观测器,提出了一种新型的永磁同步电机转速跟踪控制方法.首先基于连续时间非线性系统的广义预测控制方法,设计了速度跟踪控制器;然后针对外部扰动引起的电机性能下降问题,设计了扩展状态观测器估计系统扰动,通过对扰动量的补偿,提高了鲁棒性;而且控制器参数容易调节.试验结果表明,电机从静止到1000 r/min,与PI控制相比,超调量小,响应速度快.特别是在电机运行过程中外加负载扰动时,转速跌落更小,且更快的恢复到给定值.     

飞行模拟转台非线性干扰观测器反步滑模控制器设计

本文针对考虑不确定性的飞行模拟转台伺服系统,提出了一种基于非线性干扰观测器的反步全局滑模补偿控制方法。该方法采用反步控制方法设计转速期望虚拟控制,然后利用非线性干扰观测器观测系统不确定干扰,进而对引入非线性干扰观测器的系统设计自适应全局滑模控制器,实现了飞行模拟转台伺服系统期望转角信号的鲁棒跟踪控制,仿真结果表明,该方法控制效果良好,具有很好的工程应用价值。     

无人驾驶飞行器姿态的非线性扰动抑制控制

本文研究了无人驾驶飞行器(unmanned aerial vehicle,UAV)的姿态跟踪控制问题.针对在飞行器姿态跟踪时存在的系统模型不确定性和外界扰动,提出了一种基于四元数的姿态跟踪控制方法,基于UAV的姿态误差模型分别设计系统的观测器和控制器.首先,以四元数为姿态参数建立系统的非线性误差模型;在此基础之上,设计一种非线性干扰观测器(nonlinear disturbance observer,NDOB)用以在线估计误差模型中的复合扰动,并在控制输入端进行相应的补偿.然后通过设计非线性广义预测控制律设镇定误差系统,实现姿态跟踪.最后基于频域理论分析了非线性干扰观测器的扰动抑制性能.仿真与实验结果表明本文提出的方法在系统存在复合扰动的情况下能使系统姿态有效的跟踪期望值.     

Composite disturbance‐observer‐based control and H ∞ control for nonlinear time‐delay systems

A novel type of control scheme combined the distance‐observer‐based control (DOBC) with H_∞ control is proposed for a class of nonlinear time‐delay systems subject to disturbances. The disturbances are supposed to include two parts. One in the input channel is generated by an exogenous system with uncertainty, which can represent the harmonic signals with modeling perturbations. The other is supposed to have the bounded H₂ norm. The disturbance observers based on regional pole placement and D‐stability theory are presented, which can be designed separately from the controller design. By integrating disturbance‐observer‐based control with H_∞ control laws, the disturbances can be rejected and attenuated, simultaneously, the desired dynamic performances can be guaranteed for nonlinear time‐delay systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Anti‐disturbance control for nonlinear system via adaptive disturbance observer

This paper addresses the problems of disturbance estimation and anti‐disturbance control for nonlinear system with exogenous disturbance, which is generated from an unknown exogenous system. The state observer and the adaptive disturbance observer are designed, simultaneously. Compared with the existing methods, which assumed that the exogenous system parameter matrix was known, our disturbance observer is more applicable in practice. Utilizing the estimation information, an observer‐based dynamic output feedback controller is designed, which avoids the influence of output disturbance on the closed‐loop system, and contains a disturbance compensation term to compensate the input disturbance. Finally, simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Model predictive position control of permanent magnet synchronous motor servo system with sliding mode observer

In order to improve the control accuracy and robustness of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) servo system, a new non-cascade predictive control strategy is proposed to replace the traditional three-closed-loop servo control in this paper. The design process is as follows. First, the state variables and a discrete-time state space model of motor are defined; meanwhile, the lumped term of disturbance is included in the motor model. Second, the optimal cost function is chosen to design the model predictive controller (MPC). Then, according to the uncertain parameters and external disturbance, the sliding mode observer (SMO) is introduced to estimate and compensate the disturbance. Finally, the comparative experimental result proves that the proposed predictive control method not only has less regulation parameters but also has high position tracking accuracy and strong anti-interference ability even under different conditions.     

Active disturbance rejection control for nonlinear fractional‐order systems

This paper investigates active disturbance rejection control involving the fractional‐order tracking differentiator, the fractional‐order PID controller with compensation and the fractional‐order extended state observer for nonlinear fractional‐order systems. Firstly, the fractional‐order optimal‐time control scheme is studied to propose the fractional‐order tracking differentiator by the Hamilton function and fractional‐order optimal conditions. Secondly, the linear fractional‐order extend state observer is offered to acquire the estimated value of the sum of nonlinear functions and disturbances existing in the investigated nonlinear fractional‐order plant. For the disturbance existing in the feedback output, the effect of the disturbance is discussed to choose a reasonable parameter in fractional‐order extended state observer. Thirdly, by this observed value, the nonlinear fractional‐order plant is converted into a linear fractional‐order plant by adding the compensation in the controller. With the aid of real root boundary, complex root boundary, and imaginary boot boundary, the approximate stabilizing boundary with respect to the integral and differential coefficients is determined for the given proportional coefficient, integral order and differential order. By choosing the suitable parameters, the fractional‐order active disturbance rejection control scheme can deal with the unknown nonlinear functions and disturbances. Finally, the illustrative examples are given to verify the effectiveness of fractional‐order active disturbance rejection control scheme. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Disturbance observer based multi-variable control of ball mill grinding circuits

Ball mill grinding circuits are essentially multi-variable systems characterized with couplings, time-varying parameters and time delays. The control schemes in previous literatures, including detuned multi-loop PID control, model predictive control (MPC), robust control, adaptive control, and so on, demonstrate limited abilities in control ball mill grinding process in the presence of strong disturbances. The reason is that they do not handle the disturbances directly by controller design. To this end, a disturbance observer based multi-variable control (DOMC) scheme is developed to control a two-input-two-output ball mill grinding circuit. The systems considered here are with lumped disturbances which include external disturbances, such as the variations of ore hardness and feed particle size, and internal disturbances, such as model mismatches and coupling effects. The proposed control scheme consists of two compound controllers, one for the loop of product particle size and the other for the loop of circulating load. Each controller includes a PI feedback part and a feed-forward compensation part for the disturbances by using a disturbance observer (DOB). A rigorous analysis is also given to show the reason why the DOB can effectively suppress the disturbances. Performance of the proposed scheme is compared with those of the MPC and multi-loop PI schemes in the cases of model mismatches and strong external disturbances, respectively. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method has a better disturbance rejection property than those of the MPC and PI methods in controlling ball mill grinding circuits.     

Control of the common rail pressure in gasoline engines through an extended state observer based MPC

In this paper, a model predictive control (MPC) solution, assisted by extended state observer (ESO), is proposed for the common rail pressure control in gasoline engines. The rail pressure dynamic, nonlinear with large uncertainty, is modeled as a simple first order system. The discrepancy of the model from the real plant is lumped as ``total disturbance'', to be estimated in real-time by ESO and then mitigated in the nonlinear MPC, assuming the total disturbance does not change in the prediction horizon. The nonlinear MPC problem is solved using the Newton/generalized minimum residual (GMRES) algorithm. The proposed ESO-MPC solution, is compared with the conventional proportional-integral-differential (PID) controller, based on the high-fidelity model provided in the benchmark problem in IFAC-E-CoSM. Results show the following benefits from using ESO-MPC relative to PID (benchmark): 1) the disturbance rejection capability to fuel inject pulse step is improved by 12% in terms of recovery time; 2) the transient response of rail pressure is improved by 5% in terms of the integrated absolute tracking error; and 3) the robustness is improved without need for gain scheduling, which is required in PID. Additionally, increasing the bandwidth of ESO allows reducing the complexity of the model implemented in MPC, while maintaining the disturbance rejection performance at the cost of high noise-sensitivity. Therefore, the ESO-MPC combination offers a simpler and more practical solution for common rail pressure control, relative to the standard MPC, which is consistent with the findings in simulation.