Guaranteed-cost active disturbance rejection control for uncertain systems with an integral controller

Guaranteed-cost active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) for uncertain systems is investigated in this study. Firstly, an integral action is introduced in the framework of ADRC to measure and reduce the tracking error. Then, a robust stability condition is presented, and a quadratic cost function where the tracking error is appearing explicitly is used for ADRC performance assessment. The cost bound is formulated by linear matrix inequality and optimised to obtain controller parameters. Full-dimension extended state observer is used, and thus, the proposed strategy is applicable to an uncertain system that allows relative-degree varying or right-half-plane zero. Finally, the validity of the proposed method and its advantages is demonstrated through the simulations of comparative examples and experiments on a motor speed control system.     

A composite fractional order active disturbance rejection control method for a class of uncertain systems with multiple disturbances

The existing active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) method may not provide sufficient disturbance rejection to multiple mismatched disturbances for the fractional order systems. In this paper, a composite disturbance rejection approach is developed for a class of fractional order uncertain systems, by synthesizing the fractional order ADRC (FOADRC) approach and a disturbance observer (DO)-based compensation scheme. Taking advantage of more disturbance information and a filter structure, an improved DO is developed to achieve precise estimation of disturbances in the presence of sensor noises. In addition, a state transformation is developed to convert the system into a simple integral chain model with only matched disturbances. Then a composite control law is designed to compensate the disturbances and provide satisfying dynamic performance. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by a numerical simulation and an actual servo control simulation, as well as the comparison with two kinds of the existing ADRC methods and the commonly used integral sliding mode control (I-SMC) method.     

离散型自抗扰控制器在四旋翼飞行姿态控制中的应用

本文首先介绍了自抗扰控制器的结构组成,包括跟踪微分器、扩张状态观测器以及非线性状态误差反馈律,及各部分的典型算法.针对四旋翼盘旋系统的姿态控制问题,设计了3种离散型自抗扰控制器,搭建了仿真结构图,并进行了参数整定,得到了优良的仿真结果.进而在实际装置上进行试验,调试出了令人满意的姿态实时控制结果.实时控制结果表明,文中所设计的自抗扰控制器可以满足控制精度及快速性的要求,并且具有抗干扰性能、稳定控制能力以及对非线性强耦合系统的解耦能力.最后,总结并分析了3种自抗扰控制器的优缺点及适用范围.     

On convergence of active disturbance rejection control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems

In this paper, the practical mean-square convergence of active disturbance rejection control for a class of uncertain stochastic nonlinear systems modelled by the Itô-type stochastic differential equations with vast stochastic uncertainties is developed. We first design an extended state observer (ESO) to estimate both the unmeasured states and the stochastic total disturbance which includes unknown internal system dynamics, external stochastic disturbance without known statistical characteristics, unknown stochastic inverse dynamics, and uncertainty caused by the deviation of control parameter from its nominal value. The stochastic total disturbance is then cancelled (compensated) in the feedback loop. An ESO-based output-feedback control is finally designed analogously as for the system without uncertainties. The practical mean-square reference tracking and practical mean-square stability of the resulting closed-loop system are achieved. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

On active disturbance rejection control for nonlinear systems with multiple uncertainties and nonlinear measurement

The paper proposes a novel control design for nonlinear systems with multiple uncertainties and nonlinear measurement. The output linearization is utilized to handle the nonlinearities in system dynamics and measurement. Firstly, the integrator chain for nonlinear systems with multiple uncertainties is analyzed. Based on the fundamental integrator chain form, the equivalent total effect of multiple uncertainties is summarized as total disturbance. By timely estimating and compensating for the total disturbance, an active disturbance rejection control design to handle both multiple uncertainties and nonlinear measurement is proposed. Moreover, the transient performance of the corresponding closed‐loop system is rigorously studied, which theoretically reveals the high consistence of the tracking performance despite various multiple uncertainties.     

串级自抗扰控制器在纵列式双旋翼直升机飞行姿态控制中的应用

本文将自抗扰控制应用于直升机飞行姿态控制中,针对纵列式双旋翼直升机的飞行姿态控制问题,设计串级自抗扰控制器,并进行了参数整定,得到了优良的仿真结果.进而在实际装置上,调试出了令人满意的飞行姿态实时控制结果.对比于线性二次型调节器(linear quadratic regulator,LQR)控制算法,文中所设计的串级自抗扰控制器显然具有更加精准的控制精度,能更加满足快速性的要求,并且更具有鲁棒性、抗干扰性能以及对非线性强耦合系统的解耦能力.     

Algebraic estimation and active disturbance rejection in the control of flat systems

This paper proposes a feedback method for the control of uncertain systems with unknown external disturbances, which includes an algebraic estimator and relies on the Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) approach. The proposed estimator considers a generalized disturbance in order to deal with systems which may simultaneously present time varying parameters, external disturbances, un-modeled dynamics, and process noise. The on-line estimated disturbance is obtained by means of differential algebraic methods and it is used as the major part of an on-line feedback cancellation scheme aiming at linearization and uncertainty suppression. The algebraic estimator proposed in the paper makes unnecessary the use of classical extended state observers, which are widely used in ADRC. The speed of response and reliability of the proposed algebraic disturbance estimator-based control scheme was experimentally tested on three laboratory systems, including a system of directly-coupled DC motors, a roto-magnet system, and a disc and beam system, showing that the experimental results are in excellent agreement with the predictions of the theory.     

Flatness-based active disturbance rejection control for linear systems with unknown time-varying coefficients

A flatness-based active disturbance rejection control approach is proposed to deal with the linear systems with unknown time-varying coefficients and external disturbances. By selecting appropriate nominal values for the parameters of the system, all the deviation between the nominal and actual dynamics of the controlled process, as well as all the external disturbances can be viewed as a total disturbance. Based on the accurately estimated total disturbance with the aid of the proposed extended state observer, a linear proportional derivative feedback control law taking into account the derivatives of the desired output is designed to eliminate the effect of the total disturbance on the system performance. Finally, the load frequency control problem of a single-area power system with non-reheated unit is employed as an illustrative example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Active disturbance rejection control to MIMO nonlinear systems with stochastic uncertainties: approximate decoupling and output-feedback stabilisation

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we apply the active disturbance rejection control, an emerging control technology, to output-feedback stabilisation for a class of uncertain multi-input multi-output nonlinear systems with vast stochastic uncertainties. Two types of extended state observers (ESO) are designed to estimate both unmeasured states and stochastic total disturbance which includes unknown system dynamics, unknown stochastic inverse dynamics, external stochastic disturbance without requiring the statistical characteristics, uncertain nonlinear interactions between subsystems, and uncertainties caused by the deviation of control parameters from their nominal values. The estimations decouple approximately the system after cancelling stochastic total disturbance in the feedback loop. As a result, we are able to design an ESO-based stabilising output-feedback and prove the practical mean square stability for the closed-loop system with constant gain ESO and the asymptotic mean square stability with time-varying gain ESO, respectively. Some numerical simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed output-feedback control scheme.     

A high-performance flight control approach for quadrotors using a modified active disturbance rejection technique

In practice, the parameters of the flight controller of the quadrotors are commonly tuned experimentally with respect to a certain type of reference, such as the step reference and the unit-ramp reference. In this way, the performance of the flight controller might be affected by the variations of the references in real-time flights. Besides, real-time dynamic effects such as measure noises, external disturbances and input delays, which are usually neglected in the reported works, could easily deteriorate the performances of the flight controllers. This work is thereby motivated to develop a high-performance flight control approach utilizing a modified disturbance rejection technique for the quadrotors suffering from input delays and external disturbances. This control approach is developed in a cascaded structure and the attitude angles are chosen as the pseudo control inputs of the translational flight of the quadrotors. To facilitate the development, the dynamic model of the quadrotors is firstly formulated by including the effects of input delays, and the dynamics of the pseudo control variables are identified through real-time experiments. Based on the identified model, the flight control approach is proposed with a modified active disturbance rejection technique, which consists of a time optimal tracking differentiator, an extended state observer/predictor, and a nonlinear proportional–derivative controller. The tracking differentiator is designed to generate smooth transient profiles for the references, and the extended state observer/predictor is implemented for lumped disturbance estimation and state estimation considering the input delays. With the aid of the tracking differentiator and the extended state observer/predictor, the nonlinear proportional–derivative controller can thereby establish a fast tracking control and effectively reject the estimated disturbances. To verify the feasibilities of this development, comparative tests are carried out in both simulations and experiments. The results show that in the presence of small lumped disturbances, such as the measurement zero-drift, the steady-state errors of the proposed control approach for the ramp responses are less than 2 cm, and in the tests of sinusoidal trajectory tracking, the cross-tracking errors are less than 0.04 m. When with large disturbance airflow that is equivalent to strong breeze, the steady-state error achieved by the proposed flight controller is also less than 10 cm. All of these facts demonstrate the effectiveness of this development.     

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.     

On the conditions of exponential stability in active disturbance rejection control based on singular perturbation analysis

Stability of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) is analysed in the presence of unknown, nonlinear, and time-varying dynamics. In the framework of singular perturbations, the closed-loop error dynamics are semi-decoupled into a relatively slow subsystem (the feedback loop) and a relatively fast subsystem (the extended state observer), respectively. It is shown, analytically and geometrically, that there exists a unique exponential stable solution if the size of the initial observer error is sufficiently small, i.e. in the same order of the inverse of the observer bandwidth. The process of developing the uniformly asymptotic solution of the system reveals the condition on the stability of the ADRC and the relationship between the rate of change in the total disturbance and the size of the estimation error. The differentiability of the total disturbance is the only assumption made.     

General error-based active disturbance rejection control for swift industrial implementations

In this article, a typical 2DOF active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) design is restructured into a 1DOF form, thus making it compatible with standard industrial control function blocks and enhancing its market competitiveness. This methodology integrates the previously separated components, such as the profile generator, state observer, feedback controller, feedforward terms, and disturbance rejection, into one unified structure. In doing so, certain ADRC components can be made simpler (or even obsolete) without sacrificing the nominal control performance, which further simplifies the control synthesis and tuning. A generalized version of the error-driven design is adopted and rigorously proved here using the singular perturbation theory. The experimental verification of the utilized approach is carried out using a disturbed DC–DC buck converter.     

比例阀控电液系统抗扰换向滞后补偿反步控制

针对比例阀存在换向滞后,电液系统受到的外部干扰,液压油弹性模量随渗入的空气变化、未建模动态,这些因素增加了设计电液位置控制器的难度,本文使用线性扩张状态观测器(LESO)对比例阀控电液系统的内部扰动、外部扰动、未建模动态进行估计,将虚拟控制量的非线性函数纳入抗扰反步控制器设计,实现比例阀控电液系统换向滞后补偿.分析了闭环系统的稳定性,证明当扰动导数有界时,观测误差和跟踪误差都有界,调整控制器增益与非线性项参数可使跟踪误差收敛到原点附近,仿真和实验表明,本文设计的控制器能显著缩短比例阀换向滞后、提高电液位置控制系统的跟踪速度、精度与抗扰能力.     

Active disturbance rejection and Lyapunov redesign approaches for robust boundary control of plate vibration

In this paper, two approaches, namely active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and Lyapunov redesign, are utilised to stabilise the vibration of a boundary-controlled flexible rectangular plate in the presence of exogenous disturbances. Based on ADRC, an estimation/cancellation strategy is applied where disturbance is estimated online by an extended state observer (ESO) and cancelled by injecting the output of ESO into the feedback loop. By the Lyapunov redesign, on the other hand, the control law intended for a nominal system is redesigned by adding a (discontinuous) control component that makes the system robust to large uncertainties. Both control algorithms are designed directly based on partial differential equation model of the plate so that spillover instabilities that are a result of model truncation are avoided. The established control schemes are able to stabilise the plate vibration by actuating and sensing only along the plate boundary while accounting for the dynamical effects of Gaussian curvature integral, in-plane membrane force and actuator mass. The stability of each control approach is proven using Lyapunov analysis. The efficacy of each proposed control is illustrated by simulation results.     

Active disturbance rejection control: Applications in aerospace

Control of uncertain dynamical systems has been an area of active research for the past several decades and to this end,various robust control approaches have been proposed in the literature. The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) representsone prominent approach that has been widely studied and applied for designing robust controllers in diverse areas of engineeringapplications. In this work, a brief review of the approach and some of its applications in aerospace are discussed. The resultsshow that the approach possesses immense potential to offer viable solution to reallife aerospace problems.     

Improved disturbance rejection for predictor-based control of MIMO linear systems with input delay

In this paper, we are concerned with the predictor-based control of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) linear systems with input delay and disturbances. By taking the future values of disturbances into consideration, a new improved predictive scheme is proposed. Compared with the existing predictive schemes, our proposed predictive scheme can achieve a finite-time exact state prediction for some smooth disturbances including the constant disturbances, and a better disturbance attenuation can also be achieved for a large class of other time-varying disturbances. The attenuation of mismatched disturbances for second-order linear systems with input delay is also investigated by using our proposed predictor-based controller.     

Anti‐windup design of active disturbance rejection control for sampled systems with input delay

A novel anti‐windup design of active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) is proposed for industrial sampled systems with input delay and saturation. By using a generalized predictor to estimate the delay‐free system output, a modified extended state observer is designed to simultaneously estimate the system state and disturbance, which could become an anti‐windup compensator when the input saturation occurs. Accordingly, a feedback controller is analytically designed for disturbance rejection. By proposing the desired closed‐loop transfer function for the set‐point tracking, a prefilter is designed to tune the tracking performance while guaranteeing no steady‐state output tracking error. A sufficient condition for the closed‐loop system stability is established with proof for practical application subject to the input delay variation. Illustrative examples from the literature are used to demonstrate the effectiveness and merit of the proposed control design.     

线性自抗扰控制的抗饱和补偿措施

控制输入约束是实际工业过程中普遍存在的现象,然而控制器设计中通常都假设执行机构动态是线性的,因此当执行机构存在约束时,执行机构输出信号与控制器输出信号不一致,使系统的动态性能降低,甚至导致系统不稳定.本文针对线性自抗扰控制(linearactive disturbance rejection control,LADRC)执行机构的约束问题,提出两种抗饱和补偿方案,利用LADRC扩张状态观测器估计控制器状态或者控制器输出与执行器输出的误差,从而使LADRC能快速消除饱和.将这两种方法用到含执行机构饱和的一阶惯性加迟延被控对象进行仿真研究,结果表明两种补偿措施下线性自抗扰控制器能得到较好的控制性能.随后本文将LADRC抗饱和思想推广到负荷频率控制系统(load frequency control,LFC)中,仿真表明基于误差补偿的抗饱和方案对于LFC系统更为有效.     

移动机器人的线性自抗扰控制设计与实验验证

为了实现移动机器人的高精度轨迹跟踪控制, 设计了一种基于扩张状态观测器的扰动抑制方法和相应的实验验证平台. 首先, 考虑到不确定扰动如车轮纵向和侧向滑动对移动机器人系统控制性能的影响, 建立了受扰下的运动学模型; 然后, 基于扩张后的运动学模型设计了扩张状态观测器来估计系统扰动; 接着, 利用扰动估计构建了线性自抗扰控制器, 并利用Lyapunov函数证明了闭环系统的稳定性; 同时, 基于MATLAB/Simulink软件和微控制器搭建了所推荐控制算法的实验验证平台. 最后, 仿真和实验结果都验证了所提出控制方法的有效性.