Composite disturbance‐observer‐based control and H∞ control for complex continuous models

A novel type of control scheme combining the disturbance‐observer‐based control (DOBC) with H_∞ control is proposed for a class of complex continuous models with disturbances. The disturbances are supposed to include two parts. One part in the input channel is generated by an exogenous system with uncertainty, which can represent the harmonic signals with modeling perturbations. The other part is supposed to have the bounded H₂‐norm. Parametric uncertainties exist both in concerned plant and in exogenous subsystem. The disturbance observers based on regional pole placement and D‐stability theory are designed and integrated with conventional H_∞ control laws. The new composite DOBC and H_∞ control scheme is applied to complex continuous models for the case with known and unknown nonlinearity, respectively. Then the first type of disturbances can be estimated and rejected, and the second type can be attenuated; simultaneously, the desired dynamic performances can be guaranteed. Simulations for a flight control system are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the results and compare the proposed results with the previous schemes. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Saturating composite disturbance-observer-based control and H ∞ control for discrete time-delay systems with nonlinearity

This note is concerned with a saturating composite disturbance-observer-based control (DOBC) and H _∞ control for a class of discrete time-delay systems with nonlinearity and 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 H ₂ norm, which can represent parametric uncertainties and external disturbance existing in the controlled object. The design approaches of reduced-order disturbance observer are presented for the estimation of the disturbance. By composite control law with saturation, the disturbances can be rejected and attenuated, simultaneously, the desired dynamic performances can be guaranteed for discrete time-delay systems with known and unknown nonlinear dynamics, respectively. Simulation for a flight control system is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme compared with the previous schemes.     

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     

Composite disturbance-observer-based control and terminal sliding mode control for uncertain structural systems

A new type of composite control scheme of disturbance-observer-based control and terminal sliding mode control (TSMC) is proposed for uncertain structural systems. The disturbance are supposed to include two parts. One is generated by an exogenous system, which can represent the harmonic signals with modelling perturbations in structural system. The other part is external excitation in H ₂-norm context. 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 the disturbance observer with TSMC law, the disturbance with the exogenous system can be estimated and compensated, and external excitation can be attenuated in finite time. Finally, simulations for a four-degree-of-freedom building model excited by 1940 El Centro earthquake excitation are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach and compare the proposed results with the previous schemes with accuracy.     

Disturbance attenuation and rejection for systems with nonlinearity via DOBC approach

In this paper the disturbance attenuation and rejection problem is investigated for a class of MIMO nonlinear systems in the disturbance‐observer‐based control (DOBC) framework. The unknown external disturbances are supposed to be generated by an exogenous system, where some classic assumptions on disturbances can be removed. Two kinds of nonlinear dynamics in the plants are considered, respectively, which correspond to the known and unknown functions. Design schemes are presented for both the full‐order and reduced‐order disturbance observers via LMI‐based algorithms. For the plants with known nonlinearity, it is shown that the full‐order observer can be constructed by augmenting the estimation of disturbances into the full‐state estimation, and the reduced‐order ones can be designed by using of the separation principle. For the uncertain nonlinearity, the problem can be reduced to a robust observer design problem. By integrating the disturbance observers with conventional control laws, the disturbances can be rejected and the desired dynamic performances can be guaranteed. If the disturbance also has perturbations, it is shown that the proposed approaches are infeasible and further research is required in the future. Finally, simulations for a flight control system is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the results. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Consensus of second‐order multi‐agent systems with exogenous disturbances

In this paper, the consensus of second‐order multi‐agent dynamical systems with exogenous disturbances is studied. A pinning control strategy is designed for a part of agents of the multi‐agent systems without disturbances, and this pinning control can bring multiple agents' states to reaching an expected consensus track. Under the influence of the disturbances, disturbance observers‐based control (DOBC) is developed for disturbances generated by an exogenous system to estimate the disturbances. Asymptotical consensus of the multi‐agent systems with disturbances under the composite controller can be achieved for fixed and switching topologies. Finally, by applying an example of multi‐agent systems with switching topologies and exogenous disturbances, the consensus of multi‐agent systems is reached under the DOBC with the designed parameters. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

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.     

Composite antidisturbance control for nonlinear systems via nonlinear disturbance observer and dissipative control

This paper investigates the design problem of composite antidisturbance control for a class of nonlinear systems with multiple disturbances. First, a novel nonlinear disturbance observer‐based control scheme is constructed to estimate and compensate the disturbance modeled by the nonlinear exosystem. Then, by combining the dissipative control theory, a linear matrix inequality‐based design method of composite antidisturbance control is developed such that the augmented system is exponentially stable in the absence of unmodeled disturbances, and is dissipative in the presence of unmodeled disturbances. In this case, the original closed‐loop system is exponentially stable in the presence of modeled disturbances. Subsequently, two special cases of composite antidisturbance control are derived with H_∞ performance and passivity, respectively. Finally, the proposed method is applied to control A4D aircraft to show its effectiveness.     

Composite hierarchical antidisturbance control for a class of discrete‐time stochastic systems

In this paper, antidisturbance control and estimation problem are discussed for a class of discrete‐time stochastic systems with nonlinearity and multiple disturbances, which include the disturbance with partially known information and a sequence of random vectors. A disturbance observer is constructed to estimate the disturbance with partially known information. A composite hierarchical antidisturbance control scheme is proposed by combining disturbance observer and H_∞ control. It is proved that the 2 different disturbances can be rejected and attenuated, and the corresponding desired performances can be guaranteed for discrete‐time stochastic systems with known and unknown nonlinear dynamics, respectively. Simulation examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.     

Anti-disturbance control for time-varying delay Markovian jump nonlinear systems with multiple disturbances

In this paper, the problem of composite anti-disturbance resilient control is addressed for time-varying delay Markovian jump nonlinear systems with multiple disturbances. The disturbances are assumed to include two parts: the first one in the input channel is described by an external system with perturbations; the second one is supposed to be bounded H₂ norm. By combining disturbance observer and L₂–L_∞ control method, the disturbances are attenuated and rejected, simultaneously, and the desired dynamic performance can be obtained for time-varying delay Markovian jump nonlinear systems. Moreover, the gains of the resilient controller and the observer are acquired by applying linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) technology. Finally, an application example is presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

Nonlinear disturbance observer-based control for multi-input multi-output nonlinear systems subject to mismatching condition

For a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear system, the existing disturbance observer-based control (DOBC) only provides solutions to those whose disturbance relative degree (DRD) is higher than or equal to its input relative degree. By designing a novel disturbance compensation gain matrix, a generalised nonlinear DOBC method is proposed in this article to solve the disturbance attenuation problem of the MIMO nonlinear system with arbitrary DRD. It is shown that the disturbances are able to be removed from the output channels by the proposed method with appropriately chosen control parameters. The property of nominal performance recovery, which is the major merit of the DOBCs, is retained with the proposed method. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are demonstrated by simulation studies of both the numerical and application examples.     

Elegant anti-disturbance control for discrete-time stochastic systems with nonlinearity and multiple disturbances

An elegant anti-disturbance control (EADC) strategy for a class of discrete-time stochastic systems with both nonlinearity and multiple disturbances, which include the disturbance with partially known information and a sequence of random vectors, is proposed in this paper. A stochastic disturbance observer is constructed to estimate the disturbance with partially known information, based on which, an EADC scheme is proposed by combining pole placement and linear matrix inequality methods. It is proved that the two different disturbances can be rejected and attenuated, and the corresponding desired performances can be guaranteed for discrete-time stochastic systems with known and unknown nonlinear dynamics, respectively. Simulation examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes compared with some existing results.     

Asymptotic rejection of unmatched general periodic disturbances in a class of non-minimum-phase non-linear systems

This article deals with asymptotic rejection of unmatched general periodic disturbances in nonminimum phase non-linear output feedback systems. The steady state responses are defined for unstable systems subject to general periodic disturbances, and the generalised gain and phase are defined for stable systems subject to general periodic disturbances. Based on the new definitions, new results are obtained for the equivalent input disturbance and disturbance estimation. An L _p -convergent estimate of the equivalent input disturbance is incorporated in the control design to ensure the asymptotic rejection of unmatched general periodic disturbances while maintaining the stability of the non-linear system.     

Fault tolerant control with disturbance rejection and attenuation performance for systems with multiple disturbances

It is difficult to diagnose and accommodate the faults if disturbances and faults exist simultaneously in the controlled plants. In this paper, an anti‐disturbance fault tolerant control (FTC) scheme is presented for a class of nonlinear systems with both faults and multiple disturbances. The multiple disturbances are supposed to include two types including the uncertain modeled disturbances and norm bounded uncertain disturbances. A composite fault tolerant controller is constructed by integrating a fault accommodation from diagnosis observer with additional disturbance rejection and attenuation performance for two different types of disturbances. As a result, the fault can be accommodated and the multiple disturbances can be rejected and attenuated simultaneously. Simulations for a flight control system are given to show the efficiency of the proposed approach. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley and Sons Asia Pte Ltd and Chinese Automatic Control Society     

Composite hierarchical anti-disturbance control for robotic systems with multiple disturbances

Various sources of disturbances exist simultaneously in robotic systems, such as vibrations, frictions, measurement noises, and equivalent disturbances from unmodeled dynamics and nonlinearities. However, most results on anti-disturbance control focus on only one type of disturbances, which cannot reflect the real applications and may lead to design conservativeness due to partial use of the disturbance information. In this paper, we propose a composite hierarchical anti-disturbance control (CHADC) strategy for robotic systems in the presence of multiple disturbances as well as system uncertainties. Particularly, we assume the existence of two types of disturbances, where the first type represents disturbances from exogenous systems with model perturbations, while the second type includes other random disturbances satisfying the L2-norm bound condition. Accordingly, the CHADC control architecture is composed of a nonlinear disturbance observer (NDO) and an H _∞ based PID controller, where the NDO is constructed to estimate the first type of disturbances and provide feed forward compensation, while the feedback PID loop is optimized using H _∞ theory to minimize the second type of disturbances. Robustness against system uncertainties is also considered in this hierarchical control structure. The proposed control approach is applied to a two-link robotic manipulator and compared with the conventional DOBC (disturbance observer based control) strategies.     

采用干扰–观测器控制的移动智能体系统之一致性(英文)

本文研究了具有非线性耦合与外部干扰的移动多智能体系统的一致性问题.假设系统不存在外部干扰的情况,设计了一个牵引控制使得移动智能体系统达到一个期望值.假设系统存在一个外部干扰,应用干扰–观测器控制,使得系统中的所有智能体可以渐近达到一致.通过分析具有固定拓扑和时变拓扑的移动多智能体动态系统,得到了许多基于抗干扰观测器的系统收敛性条件.最后应用仿真实例说明了结论的有效性.     

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.     

H∞ optimal design of robust observer against disturbances

This paper considers the robust observer design problem for linear dynamic systems subject to the interference of external disturbances. For such systems, the state estimate from the conventional Luenberger is normally biased with respect to the true system state. To remedy this situation, this paper proposes a new structure for robust observers. With this new structure, the robust observer design problem is skillfully transformed into the well-known disturbance rejection control problem. The H_∞ optimal control design technique can then be applied to shape the proposed robust observer in the frequency domain. The proposed robust observer is a joint state and disturbance observer, which simultaneously estimates both the system state and unknown disturbances, and can be applied to non-minimum-phase systems.     

风扰影响下的无人机非线性广义最小方差跟踪控制

本文以鱼鹰型固定翼无人机为研究对象,基于非线性广义最小方差(nonlinear generalized minimum variance,NGMV)最优控制理论,研究了受到非线性阵风干扰影响下的无人机跟踪控制问题.首先对鱼鹰型无人机动力学模型解耦,在解耦后的横向和纵向模型上分别实现跟踪控制;然后针对阵风非线性模型的特定形式,根据NGMV理论设计了增维的非线性广义最小方差控制器,使得模型充分考虑了阵风干扰的特性.所设计的NGMV最优控制器的主要优势在于它能处理带有干扰和时滞环节的非线性系统.多组阵风扰动的仿真试验结果表明,非线性广义最小方差最优控制器具有跟踪性和收敛性.     

Predictive switching supervisory control of persistently disturbed input-saturated plants

Predictive switching logic schemes are considered whereby a feedback-gain is switched-on at any time from a family of candidate feedback-gains so as to control a discrete-time input-saturated LTI system possibly subject to persistent bounded disturbances of unknown arbitrary magnitude. It is constructively shown that such schemes do exist which ensure, along with good tracking performance, global asymptotic and semi-global exponential stability in the noiseless case, as well as finite l_∞-induced gain to the disturbance-to-state map, whenever the structure of the disturbed plant can make such properties conceptually achievable, viz., the disturbance which enters an Asymptotically Null-Controllable with Bounded Input (ANCBI) system acts directly only on the stable modes, while the critically unstable ones are indirectly affected by the disturbance only via the feedback controls. More generally, in ANCBI systems general disturbances of suitably bounded magnitude can also be handled by the scheme, provided that the switching logic be equipped with an appropriate hysteresis facility.