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Shen Zhao1, Zhiqiang Gao1

  • 1Center for Advanced Control Technologies, Fenn College of Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, United States.

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A new Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) method effectively handles time-delay systems. This enhanced ADRC ensures stability and superior disturbance rejection for industrial processes.

Keywords:
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Area of Science:

  • Control Engineering
  • Systems Engineering
  • Industrial Automation

Background:

  • Industrial processes often exhibit nonlinear, time-varying, and uncertain dynamics.
  • Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) is a recognized solution for such complex systems.
  • The presence of time delays significantly complicates control design and stability analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel modification of ADRC specifically for systems with time delays.
  • To achieve robust disturbance rejection while ensuring system stability in the presence of time delays.
  • To provide a unified control solution applicable to stable, critically stable, and unstable time-delay systems.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a modified Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) algorithm.
  • Simulation studies to compare the proposed ADRC with standard ADRC for time-delay systems.
  • Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) based stability analysis to rigorously assess system stability.

Main Results:

  • The proposed ADRC modification demonstrates superior disturbance rejection compared to standard ADRC in time-delay systems.
  • The design effectively maintains system stability across various system types (stable, critical stable, unstable) with time delays.
  • Simulation and experimental results confirm the practicality and effectiveness of the novel ADRC approach.

Conclusions:

  • The modified ADRC offers an improved and unified solution for controlling nonlinear, time-varying, and uncertain industrial processes with time delays.
  • The LMI-based stability analysis provides a formal guarantee for the proposed control strategy.
  • This work advances ADRC applications in challenging industrial control scenarios.