Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Nonaffine Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Systems

Abstract

This paper presents a linear active disturbance rejection controller (LADRC) for nonaffine nonlinear systems with strict-feedback form. The proposed LADRC results in a closed-loop system with a three-time-scale structure, in which a reduced-order linear extended state observer estimates unmeasured states and total disturbance in the fastest time scale and dynamic inversion based on sector conditions is used to deal with nonaffine inputs in the intermediate time scale while the system dynamics evolves in the slowest time scale. The singular perturbation method is used to analyze the stability and performance of the system. The effectiveness of the proposed LADRC is demonstrated through simulation studies and experimental validation on a linear motor servo system with nonaffine uncertainties.