Related papers: A Stability Analysis for the Acceleration-based Ro…
Aerial Manipulators (AMs) provide a versatile platform for various applications, including 3D printing, architecture, and aerial grasping missions. However, their operational speed is often sacrificed to uphold precision. Existing control…
This work presents a safe control design approach that integrates the disturbance observer (DOB) and the control barrier function (CBF) for systems with external disturbances. Different from existing robust CBF results that consider the…
Grasping and releasing objects would cause oscillations to delivery drones in the warehouse. To reduce such undesired oscillations, this paper treats the to-be-delivered object as an unknown external disturbance and presents an image-based…
This paper presents an observer-integrated Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach, called Disturbance OBserver Network (DOB-Net), for robots operating in environments where disturbances are unknown and time-varying, and may frequently exceed…
Motion control of flexible joint robots (FJR) is challenged by inherent flexibility and configuration-dependent variations in system dynamics. While disturbance observers (DOB) can enhance system robustness, their performance is often…
This paper presents robust position control strategies for the novel VSSEA. By employing a constructed state-space model, two control schemes are developed in a unified framework: a state-feedback controller and a sliding mode controller,…
This letter presents a nonlinear disturbance observer-parameterized control barrier function (DOp-CBF) designed for a robust safety control system under external disturbances. This framework emphasizes that the safety bounds are relevant to…
Repetitive operations are widely conducted by automatic machines in industry. Periodic disturbances induced by the repetitive operations must be compensated to achieve precise functioning. In this paper, a periodic-disturbance observer…
In this paper, new stability analysis methods are proposed for digital robust motion control systems implemented using a disturbance observer.
This study presents a novel, continuous finite-time control strategy for a class of nonlinear systems subject to matched uncertainties with unknown bounds. We propose an Adaptive Disturbance Observer-based Full-order Integral-Terminal…
In this paper, we introduce a translational force control method with disturbance observer (DOB)-based force disturbance cancellation for precise three-dimensional acceleration control of a multi-rotor UAV. The acceleration control of the…
Most of nonlinear robust control methods just consider the affine nonlinear nominal model. When the nominal model is assumed to be affine nonlinear, available information about existing non-affine nonlinearities is ignored. For non-affine…
Envisioned applications for humanoid robots call for the design of balancing and walking controllers. While promising results have been recently achieved, robust and reliable controllers are still a challenge for the control community…
We have demonstrated broadband frequency-noise suppression in a laser stabilization system by augmenting a conventional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller with a digital disturbance observer (DOB) implemented on a…
This article presents the design of a robust observer based on the discrete-time formulation of Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator (UDE), a well-known robust control technique, for the purpose of controlling robot manipulators. The…
In this paper, we consider the problem of safe control synthesis of general controlled nonlinear systems in the presence of bounded additive disturbances. Towards this aim, we first construct a governing augmented state space model…
This paper proposes NeuroDOB, a deep neural network based observer controller for vehicle lateral dynamics, which replaces the conventional disturbance observer (DOB) with a deep neural network (DNN) to enhance personalized lateral control.…
To achieve high-accuracy manipulation in the presence of unknown disturbances, we propose two novel efficient and robust motion control schemes for high-dimensional robot manipulators. Both controllers incorporate an unknown system dynamics…
Disturbance observer is an inner-loop output-feedback controller whose role is to reject external disturbances and to make the outer-loop baseline controller robust against plant's uncertainties. Therefore, the closed-loop system with the…
This is the last part of four series papers, aiming at stabilization for signal-input-signaloutput (SISO) linear finite-dimensional systems corrupted by general input disturbances. A new observer, referred to as Extended Dynamics Observer…