Three closed‐loop feedback control system with dual disturbance observers of an optoelectronic stable control platform

Abstract

Disturbances presented in aeronautical imaging equipment can cause visual axis jitter, which directly leads to a reduction in closed‐loop bandwidth and a decrease in tracking accuracy. The disturbance frequency affecting the stable control platform is mainly concentrated in the low-and middle‐frequency bands, but the commonly used three closed‐loop feedback control methods do not perform well in the disturbance rejection of those frequency bands. Moreover, the only disturbance observer in the acceleration loop cannot improve the low‐band disturbance rejection capability due to the drift of the micro‐electro‐mechanical‐system (MEMS) accelerometers in the low‐frequency range. To solve these problems, this paper proposed dual disturbance observers (dual DOB) based on the disturbance information in the acceleration loop and the position loop. This design used two compensators to observe and compensate for the disturbances, which did not require additional sensors, and therefore did not increase system cost. Theoretical demonstrations and physical experiments showed that the designed method of the dual DOB not only improved the disturbance rejection capability of the low‐ and middle‐frequency band of the optoelectronic stable control platform, but also improved the robustness of the system.