Output feedback adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control of hydraulic systems with disturbance compensation

This paper presents an output feedback adaptive super-twisting sliding mode controller (SSMC) for hydraulic systems with unmodeled disturbances via utilizing an extended state observer (ESO). Both unmeasured system states and unmodeled disturbances are estimated by ESO based on output position signal, which avoids using noise-polluted signals and eliminates most of the disturbance effects on control performance simultaneously. Moreover, a SSMC is developed to further suppress the residual error of disturbance compensation, in which feedback gains are adapted online to further reduce the high-gain feedback. In addition, this proposed controller is continuous and chattering-free, which is beneficial to practical applications. Theoretical analysis indicates that the proposed controller ensures an asymptotic stability when existing constant disturbances, and ultimately bounded tracking performance for the time-variant disturbance case. Comparative experimental results reveal the validity of the developed approach.