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Modified Active Disturbance Rejection Control For Time-Delay Systems, Shen Zhao, Zhiqiang Gao Jul 2014

Modified Active Disturbance Rejection Control For Time-Delay Systems, Shen Zhao, Zhiqiang Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Industrial processes are typically nonlinear, time-varying and uncertain, to which active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) has been shown to be an effective solution. The control design becomes even more challenging in the presence of time delay. In this paper, a novel modification of ADRC is proposed so that good disturbance rejection is achieved while maintaining system stability. The proposed design is shown to be more effective than the standard ADRC design for time-delay systems and is also a unified solution for stable, critical stable and unstable systems with time delay. Simulation and test results show the effectiveness and practicality of …


On The Centrality Of Disturbance Rejection In Automatic Control, Zhiqiang Gao Jul 2014

On The Centrality Of Disturbance Rejection In Automatic Control, Zhiqiang Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, it is shown that the problem of automatic control is, in essence, that of disturbance rejection, with the notion of disturbance generalized to symbolize the uncertainties, both internal and external to the plant. A novel, unifying concept of disturbance rejector is proposed to compliment the traditional notion of controller. The new controller-rejector pair is shown to be a powerful organizing principle in the realm of automatic control, leading to a Copernican moment where the model-centric design philosophy is replaced by the one that is control-centric in the following sense: the controller is designed for a canonical model …


A Practical Approach To Disturbance Decoupling Control, Qing Zheng, Zhongzhou Chen, Zhiqiang Gao Sep 2009

A Practical Approach To Disturbance Decoupling Control, Qing Zheng, Zhongzhou Chen, Zhiqiang Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, a unique dynamic disturbance decoupling control (DDC) strategy, based on the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) framework, is proposed for square multivariable systems. With the proposed method, it is shown that a largely unknown square multivariable system is readily decoupled by actively estimating and rejecting the effects of both the internal plant dynamics and external disturbances. By requiring as little information on plant model as possible, the intention is to make the new method practical. The stability analysis shows that both the estimation error and the closed-loop tracking error are bounded and the error upper bounds …