Suboptimal Disturbance Observer Design Using All Stabilizing Q Filter for Precise Tracking Control

Wonhee Kim and Sangmin Suh
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Wonhee Kim: School of Energy Systems Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea
Sangmin Suh: Department of Information and Telecommunication Engineering, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do 26403, Korea

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: For several decades, disturbance observers (DOs) have been widely utilized to enhance tracking performance by reducing external disturbances in different industrial applications. However, although a DO is a verified control structure, a conventional DO does not guarantee stability. This paper proposes a stability-guaranteed design method, while maintaining the DO structure. The proposed design method uses a linear matrix inequality (LMI)-based H ∞ control because the LMI-based control guarantees the stability of closed loop systems. However, applying the DO design to the LMI framework is not trivial because there are two control targets, whereas the standard LMI stabilizes a single control target. In this study, the problem is first resolved by building a single fictitious model because the two models are serial and can be considered as a single model from the Q-filter point of view. Using the proposed design framework, all-stabilizing Q filters are calculated. In addition, for the stability and robustness of the DO, two metrics are proposed to quantify the stability and robustness and combined into a single unified index to satisfy both metrics. Based on an application example, it is verified that the proposed method is effective, with a performance improvement of 10.8 % .

Keywords: disturbance observer (DO); H ? control; linear matrix inequalities (LMIs); optimal control; Q filter; robustness; stability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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