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This paper studies the Mittag-Leffler stabilization for unstable infinite dimensional systems actuated by boundary controllers described by time fractional reaction diffusion equations. Via the Riesz basis method, the stable and the unstable part of the considered system are separated. The Kalman rank criterion, which is a classical linear algebra condition, guarantees the stabilizability of the unstable subsystem. Based on these, a controller governed by a finite dimensional system (so called the finite dimensional controller hereafter) is designed to achieve the Mittag-Leffler stability of the closed loop. From infinite to finite, this methodology is a substantial improvement for the existing control laws.

The active disturbance rejection control (AD RC), first proposed by Jingqing Han in late 1980s, is a powerful control technology being able to deal with external disturbances and internal uncertainties in large scale for control systems in engineering applications. This survey paper will articulate, from a theoretical perspective, the origin, ideology and progress of ADRC for not only uncertain finite-dimensional systems but also uncertain infinite-dimensional ones. Some recent theoretical developments, general framework and unsolved problems of ADRC for finite-dimensional systems with mismatched disturbances and uncertainties by output feedback, uncertain finite-dimensional stochastic systems, uncertain infinite-dimensional systems described by both the wave equation and the fractional-order partial differential equation are successively addressed, from which we see the challenges and opportunities for this remarkable emerging control technology to various types of control systems.

In this study, we focus on the controllability of fractional-order damped systems in linear and nonlinear cases with multiple time-varying delays in control. For the linear system based on the Mittag-Leffler matrix function, we define a controllability Gramian matrix, which is useful in judging whether the system is controllable or not. Furthermore, in two special cases, we present serval equivalent controllable conditions which are easy to verify. For the nonlinear system, under the controllability of its corresponding linear system, we obtain a sufficient condition on the nonlinear term to ensure that the system is controllable. Finally, two examples are given to illustrate the theory.

We address the output feedback stabilization for a Euler–Bernoulli beam equation with boundary moment control and disturbance. The stabilization of this system has been studied in Guo et al. (J Dyn Control Syst. 2014;20:539–58), where the controller is based on full state feedback. In order to derive the output feedback controller, we design a new disturbance estimator to estimate the total disturbance in the sense that the estimation error signal belongs $L^{2}(0,\infty )$ , and it decays exponentially if the initial state is smooth. Using the estimated total disturbance, we propose a control law to stabilize the system. Using admissibility theory, we show that the closed-loop system is exponentially stable and the signals in the disturbance estimator in the closed-loop are proved to be bounded.

This study aims to address the impulsive controllability of linear fractional impulse controlled systems. The authors establish the Kalman rank criterion to guarantee the impulsive controllability of the considered system. They also present the minimum number of impulsive controls for a realisation of such controllability. An example is finally presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the authors' results.

This paper investigates performance output tracking for a boundary controlled multidimensional heat equation. It is assumed that the so-called total disturbance (which is composed of internal possibly nonlinear uncertainty and external disturbance) the equation is subject to is on one part of the boundary, and that the control is applied on the rest of the boundary. Using only partial boundary measurement, we first propose an extended state observer to estimate both system state and the total disturbance. This allows us to design a servomechanism and then an output feedback controller. Under the condition that both the reference signal and the disturbance vanish or belong to spaces $H^1(0,\infty ;L^1(\Gamma _1))$ and $L^2(0,\infty ;L^2(\Gamma _0))$ , respectively. We show that the over-all control strategy achieves three objectives on the system performance: first, exponentially output tracking for arbitrary given reference signal; second, uniformly boundedness of all internal signals; and, third, the internal asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system. In addition, the control strategy turns out to be robust to the measurement noise. We provide numerical experiments to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

This paper considers boundary control of time fractional order diffusion–wave equation. Both boundary stabilization and disturbance rejection are considered. This paper, for the first time, has confirmed, via hybrid symbolic and numerical simulation studies, that the existing two schemes for boundary stabilization and disturbance rejection for (integer order) wave/beam equations are still valid for time fractional order diffusion–wave equations. The problem definition, the hybrid symbolic and numerical simulation techniques, outlines of the methods for boundary stabilization and disturbance rejection are presented together with extensive simulation results. Different dynamic behaviors are revealed for different fractional orders which may stimulate new future research opportunities.

This paper considers performance output tracking and disturbance rejection for a boundary controlled one-dimensional Euler–Bernoulli beam equation suffered unknown external bounded disturbance. By first proposing a disturbance estimator and then based on this disturbance estimator, we construct a servomechanism to track the reference signal and reject the external disturbance. Four control objectives are achieved: a) the output is exponentially tracking the reference signal; b) the disturbance is rejected; c) all the states of internal-loops are bounded; d) when the disturbance and reference are disconnected, the closed-loop is exponentially stable. Finally, the state of the system is shown to be exponentially tracking the reference state.

In this paper, we pay attention to the boundary feedback stabilization of a one-dimensional flexible string system with the exogenous disturbance that acts on the control end. The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and disturbance observer-based control (DOBC) are introduced to reduce the vibration caused by external disturbance. By utilizing Lyapunov method and constructing a suitable Lyapunov functional, we conclude that system is uniformly bounded stable. The numerical simulations are also presented to demonstrate the validity of both methods.

This paper is concerned with the adaptive error feedback regulator problem whereby the 1D Euler--Bernoulli beam equation with general unknown amplitude harmonic disturbance is rejected and general ...

In this study, the asymptotical stability for several classes of fractional order differential systems with time delay is investigated. The authors first present an integral inequality by which the Halanay inequality is extended to fractional order case. Based on the generalised Halanay inequality, the authors establish several asymptotical stability conditions under which the fractional order systems with time delay are asymptotically stable. It is worth to note that these stability conditions are easy to check without resorting to the solution expression of the systems.

In this paper, we consider performance output tracking for a boundary controlled one-dimensional wave equation with possibly unknown internal nonlinear uncertainty and external disturbance. We first show that the open-loop system is well-posed and then propose a disturbance estimator. It is shown that the disturbance estimator can estimate successfully the total disturbance that consists of internal uncertainty and external disturbance. An servomechanism based on the estimated total disturbance is then designed. It is shown that the closed-loop system is well-posed. Three control objectives are achieved: (a) the output is tracking the reference signal; (b) all the internal signals are uniformly bounded; (c) the closed-loop system is internally asymptotically stable if both the reference signal and the disturbance vanish or belong to the space H2(0, ∞) and L2(0, ∞), respectively. The unmatched performance output tracking control is first time applied to a system described by the partial differential equation for complete general disturbance rejection and reference tracking purpose. Another key feature of this paper is that we do not use the high-gain to estimate total disturbance for unmatched system. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed control law.

In this paper, we consider boundary output feedback stabilization for a multi-dimensional wave equation with boundary control matched unknown nonlinear internal uncertainty and external disturbance. A new unknown input type extended state observer is proposed to recover both state and total disturbance which consists of internal uncertainty and external disturbance. A key feature of the proposed observer in this paper is that we do not use the high-gain to estimate the disturbance. By the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) strategy, the total disturbance is compensated (canceled) in the feedback loop, which together with a collocated stabilizing controller without uncertainty, leads to an output feedback stabilizing feedback control. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop system is well-posed and asymptotically stable under weak assumption on internal uncertainty and external disturbance. The numerical experiments are carried out to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

In this paper, we consider boundary output feedback stabilization for a multidimensional wave equation with boundary control matched unknown nonlinear internal uncertainty and external disturbance. A new unknown input type extended state observer is proposed to recover both state and total disturbance which consists of internal uncertainty and external disturbance by using the hidden regularity of the wave equation. By the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) strategy, the total disturbance is compensated (canceled) in the feedback loop, which together with a collocated stabilizing controller without uncertainty, leads to an output feedback stabilizing feedback control. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop system is well-posed and asymptotically stable under weak assumption on internal uncertainty and external disturbance. The numerical experiments are carried out to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

This paper develops systematically the output feedback exponential stabilization for a one-dimensional unstable/anti-stable wave equation where the control boundary suffers from both internal nonlinear uncertainty and external disturbance. Using only two displacement signals, we propose a disturbance estimator that not only can estimate successfully the disturbance in the sense that the error is in L2(0, ∞) but also is free high-gain. With the estimated disturbance, we design a state observer that is exponentially convergent to the state of original system. An observer-based output feedback stabilizing control law is proposed. The disturbance is then canceled in the feedback loop by its approximated value. The closed-loop system is shown to be exponentially stable and it can be guaranteed that all internal signals are uniformly bounded.

We solve the output regulator problem for a system described by a Neumann boundary controlled anti-stable one-dimensional Schrodinger equation by the backstepping approach. The output to be controlled is not required to be measured and its observation operator is assumed to be admissible for a certain Co-semigroup that is related to the original system, while the measurements used for control are located at the boundary First we show that the open-loop system is well-posed. Then we find a state feedback control law to solve the output regulator problem by the backstepping method. We design a finite-dimensional reference observer and an infinite-dimensional disturbance observer. Based on this observer, we propose an output feedback controller to achieve output regulation.

We consider performance output tracking for a boundary controlled multi-dimensional heat equation with possibly unknown internal nonlinear uncertainty and external disturbance on one part and control on the rest of the boundary. The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) approach is adopted in investigation. With partial boundary measurement only, we propose an extended state observer which is used to estimate both system state and total disturbance, design a servomechanism and an output feedback controller. Three control objectives have been achieved: a) the performance output is exponentially tracking the arbitrary given reference signal; b) all internal signals are uniformly bounded; c) the closed-loop system is internally asymptotically stable whenever both the reference signal and the disturbance vanish or belong to the spaces H1(0, ∞; L1(Γ 1 )) and L2(0, ∞; L2(Γ 0 )), respectively. In addition, when boundary measurement is suffered from the noise, it is shown that the proposed controller is robust to the measurement noise.

In this paper, we propose a new output feedback control law to exponentially stabilize an one-dimensional wave equation with unknown anti-damping coefficient subject to general external disturbance entering the control end. With the proposed control law, although the anti-damping parameter is unknown and the disturbance is presented, it is shown that the resulting closed-loop system still decays exponentially. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed control law.

In this paper, we consider stabilisation for a cascade of ODE and first-order hyperbolic equation with external disturbance flowing to the control end. The active disturbance rejection control (ADR...

The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) is now considered as a powerful control strategy in dealing with large uncertainty covering unknown dynamics, external disturbance, and unknown part in coefficient of the control. However, all theoretical works up to present are limited to deterministic uncertainty. In this technical note, we generalize the ADRC to uncertain nonlinear systems subject to external bounded stochastic disturbance described by an uncertain stochastic differential equation driven by white noise. We first design an extended state observer (ESO) that is used to estimate both state, and total disturbance which includes the internal uncertain nonlinear part and the external uncertain stochastic disturbance. It is shown that the resulting closed-loop system is practically stable in the mean-square topology. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate effectiveness of the proposed approach.

In this paper, we consider output feedback stabilisation for a wave PDE-ODE system with Dirichlet boundary interconnection and external disturbance flowing the control end. We first design a variable structure unknown input type state observer which is shown to be exponentially convergent. Then, we estimate the disturbance in terms of the estimated state, an idea from active disturbance rejection control. These enable us to design an observer-based output feedback stabilising control to this uncertain PDE-ODE system.

We consider boundary output feedback stabilization for a multi-dimensional Kirchhoff plate with boundary observation suffered from a general external disturbance. We adopt for the first time the active disturbance rejection control approach to stabilization of multi-dimensional partial differential equations under corrupted output feedback. In terms of this approach, the disturbance is estimated by a relatively independent estimator, based on (possibly) an infinite number of ordinary differential equations reduced from the original PDEs by infinitely many time-dependent test functions. This gives a state observer, an additional result via this approach. The disturbance is compensated in the feedback-loop. As a result, the control law can be designed almost as the same as that for the system without disturbance. We show that with a time varying gain properly designed, the observer driven by the disturbance estimator is convergent; and that all subsystems in the closed-loop are asymptotically stable. We also provide numerical simulations which demonstrate the convergence results and underline the effect of the time varying high gain estimator.

This paper investigates the controllability of fractional damped dynamical systems with control delay. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the controllability of fractional damped dynamical systems with control delay are established. The obtained conditions are easily checkable. An example is also given to illustrate the theory.

In this paper we solve the tracking and disturbance rejection problem for an unstable wave equation with reference and disturbance signals that are generated by a linear exosystem whose eigenvalues are located on the imaginary axis. We consider both unmatched disturbance at the boundary and also in the domain, and also matched disturbance at the control boundary. To make the control design more easy, the in-domain disturbance is first shifted to the control boundary by introducing a new variable transformation, and the anti-stable boundary term is then transformed into a dissipative boundary term by constructing a transport equation. We find an ordinary differential equation (ODE) with delay that describes the relationship between the output tracking error and the coupled signals consisting of the disturbance and reference signal, by using Riemann variables. Based on this ODE with delay, we apply the internal model principle to find the dynamic controller that achieves the output regulation while rejecting the disturbances, and uses only the tracking error as input.

We consider parameter estimation and stabilization for a one-dimensional Schrodinger equation with an unknown constant disturbance suffered from the boundary observation at one end and the non-collocated control at other end. An adaptive observer is designed in terms of measured position with unknown constant by the Lyapunov functional approach. By a backstepping transformation for infinite-dimensional systems, it is shown that the resulting closed-loop system is asymptotically stable. Meanwhile, the estimated parameter is shown to be convergent to the unknown parameter as time goes to infinity. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate the proposed approach.

In this paper, we consider boundary stabilization for a multi-dimensional wave equation with boundary control matched disturbance that depends on both time and spatial variables. The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) approach is adopted in investigation. An extended state observer is designed to estimate the disturbance based on an infinite number of ordinary differential equations obtained from the original multi-dimensional system by infinitely many test functions. The disturbance is canceled in the feedback loop together with a collocated stabilizing controller. All subsystems in the closed-loop are shown to be asymptotically stable. In particular, the time varying high gain is first time applied to a system described by the partial differential equation for complete disturbance rejection purpose and the peaking value reduction caused by the constant high gain in literature. The overall picture of the ADRC in dealing with the disturbance for multi-dimensional partial differential equation is presented through this system. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate the convergence and effect of peaking value reduction.

We solve the output tracking and disturbance rejection problem for a plant described by a one-dimensional anti-stable wave equation, with reference and disturbance signals that belong to W1,∞ (0, ∞) and L∞ (0, ∞), respectively. Generally, these signals cannot be generated by an exogenous system. We explore an approach based on proportional control. We show that the proportional low gain controller can achieve exponential output tracking while rejecting the disturbance. We solve the problem in three steps. In the first step, we convert the original system without disturbance into the two transport equations with an ordinary differential equation by using Riemann variables, then we propose a proportional control law by making use of the properties of transport systems and time delay systems. In the second step, based on our recent results on disturbance estimators, we apply the estimation/cancellation strategy to cancel to the external disturbance and to track the reference asymptotically. In the third step, we design a controller for the state observer system. Since no explicit disturbance appears in this system, the disturbance is exactly compensated, and the output signal to be controlled is exponentially tracking the reference signal. As a byproduct, we obtain a new output feedback stabilizing control law by which the resulting closed-loop system is exponentially stable using only two displacement output signals. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control law.

We consider boundary stabilization for a one-dimensional Euler-Bernoulli equation with boundary moment control and disturbance. The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and sliding mode control (SMC) approaches are adopted in investigation. By the ADRC approach, a state feedback disturbance estimator with time-varying gain is designed to estimate the disturbance. It is shown that the closed-loop system is asymptotically stable by canceling the disturbance in the feedback loop with its online estimation. In the second part, the SMC is applied to reject the disturbance. The well-posedness of the closed-loop system via SMC is proven, and the monotonicity of the "reaching condition" is presented without differentiating the sliding mode function which may not always exist for the weak solution. The numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the convergence and the peaking value reduction caused by the constant high gain. In addition, the control energies are compared numerically for two approaches.

We consider boundary stabilization for a multi-dimensional wave equation with boundary control matched disturbance that depends on both time and spatial variables. The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) approach is adopted in investigation. An disturbance estimator is designed to estimate, in real time, the disturbance, and the disturbance is canceled in the feedback loop with its approximation. All subsystems in the closed-loop are shown to be asymptotically stable. The numerical experiments are carried out to illustrate the convergence and effect of peaking value reduction.

In this paper, an algorithm is developed to reject time and spatially varying boundary disturbances from a multidimensional Kirchhoff plate via boundary control. The disturbance and control input are assumed to be matched. The active disturbance rejection control approach is adopted for developing the algorithm. A state feedback scheme is designed to estimate the disturbance based on an infinite number of ordinary differential equations obtained from the original multidimensional system using infinitely many time-dependent test functions. The proposed control law cancels the disturbance using its estimated value. All subsystems in the closed loop are shown to be asymptotically stable. Simulation results are presented to validate the theoretical conclusions and to exhibit the reduction in the peaking phenomenon due to the use of time varying gains instead of constant high gains.

In this paper we are concerned with the output regulation problem for a system (plant) described by a boundary controlled anti-stable one-dimensional Schrodinger equation by the backstepping approach. The output to be controlled is not required to be measurable and its output operator is assumed to be admissible for a certain C 0 -semigroup that is related to the original system whereas the measurement is located at the boundary. First we show that the open-loop system is well-posed. We construct a state feedback control law to solve the output regulation problem, using the backstepping method. We design a finite-dimensional reference observer and an infinite-dimensional disturbance observer. Based on these observers, we design an output feedback controller that achieves output regulation.

This paper investigates the controllability of fractional damped dynamical systems with distributed delays. A necessary and sufficient condition for the controllability of linear fractional damped dynamical system with distributed delay in control is established, and a sufficient condition for the nonlinear system is also established. Two examples are given to illustrate the theorems.

In this paper, we solve the output tracking and disturbance rejection problem for a system described by a one-dimensional anti-stable wave equation, with reference and disturbance signals that belong to W1,∞[0, ∞) and L∞[0, ∞), respectively. Generally, these signals cannot be generated from an exosystem. We explore an approach based on proportional control. It is shown that a proportional gain controller can achieve exponentially the output tracking while rejecting disturbance. Our method consists of three steps: first, we convert the original system without disturbance into two transport equations with an ordinary differential equation by using Riemann variables, then we propose a proportional control law by making use of the properties of transport systems and time delay systems. Second, based on our recent result on disturbance estimator, we apply the estimation/cancellion strategy to cancel to the external disturbance and to track the reference asymptotically. Third, we design a controller using a state observer. Since disturbance does not appear in the observer explicitly (the disturbance is exactly compensated), the controlled output signal is exponentially tracking the reference signal. As a byproduct, we obtain a new output feedback stabilizing control law by which the resulting closed-loop system is exponentially stable using only two displacement output signals.

The boundary output feedback stabilization for a multi-dimensional Kirchhoff plate with boundary observation suffered from general external disturbance is considered. The active disturbance rejection control approach is adopted in investigation. By using this approach, the disturbance is estimated by a relatively independent estimator. The disturbance is canceled in the feedback-loop. As a result, the control law can be designed almost as same as that for the system without disturbance. We show that with a time varying gain properly designed, the observer driven by the disturbance estimator is convergent; and that all subsystems in the closedloop are asymptotically stable. Some numerical simulations are provided.

In this comment, we point out that there are four errors leading to question of the validity of Theorem 3 and Proposition 4 of a recent paper Ran, Wang, and Dong (2016a).