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This paper analyses and synthesises the Disturbance Observer (DOb) based motion control systems in the discrete-time domain. By employing Bode Integral Theorem, it is shown that continuous-time analysis methods fall-short in explaining the…
This paper analyses the robust stability and performance of the Disturbance Observer- (DOb-) based digital motion control systems in discrete-time domain. It is shown that the phase margin and the robustness of the digital motion controller…
The goal of this paper is to clarify the robustness and performance constraints in the design of control systems based on disturbance observer (DOB). Although the bandwidth constraints of a DOB have long been very well-known by experiences…
This paper proposes new practical design tools for the robust motion control systems based on disturbance observer (DOB). Although DOB has long been used in several motion control applications, it has insufficient analysis and design tools.…
The trade-off between the noise-sensitivity and the performance of disturbance estimation is well-known in the Disturbance Observer- (DOb-) based motion control systems. As the bandwidth of the DOb increases, not only the performance but…
This paper analyzes the robustness and stability of a disturbance observer (DOB) and a reaction torque observer (RTOB) based robust motion control systems. Conventionally, a DOB is analyzed by using an ideal velocity measurement that is…
This paper proposes a new stability analysis for the Reaction Torque Observer (RTOb) based robust force control systems in the discrete-time domain. The robust force controller is implemented by employing a Disturbance Observer (DOb) to…
By employing a unified state-space design framework, this paper proposes a novel systematic analysis and synthesis method that facilitates the implementation of both conventional zero-order (ZO) and high-order (HO) DObs. Furthermore, this…
This paper proposes a new nonlinear stability analysis for the acceleration-based robust position control of robot manipulators by using Disturbance Observer (DOb). It is shown that if the nominal inertia matrix is properly tuned in the…
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…
In this paper, we address the problem of robust stability for uncertain sampled-data systems controlled by a discrete-time disturbance observer (DT-DOB). Unlike most of previous works that rely on the small-gain theorem, our approach is to…
Autonomous vehicle path following performance is one of significant consideration. This paper presents discrete time design of robust PD controlled system with disturbance observer (DOB) and communication disturbance observer (CDOB)…
This paper presents a tutorial-style review on the recent results about the disturbance observer (DOB) in view of robust stabilization and recovery of the nominal performance. The analysis is based on the case when the bandwidth of Q-filter…
This paper presents a new HPDOb that significantly improves disturbance estimation accuracy and robustness in motion control systems, surpassing the capabilities of conventional DObs. The proposed observer is analysed and synthesised in the…
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…
In this paper, a new adaptive design method is proposed for reaction force observer (RFOB) based robust force control systems. It is a well-known fact that an RFOB has several superiorities over a force sensor such as higher force control…
This work provides formal safety guarantees for control systems with disturbance. A disturbance observer-based robust safety-critical controller is proposed, that estimates the effect of the disturbance on safety and utilizes this estimate…
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…
An important performance metric for series-elastic actuators is the range of impedance which they can safely render. Advanced torque control, using techniques such as the disturbance observer, improve torque tracking bandwidth and accuracy,…
A path tracking control system is chosen as the proof-of-concept demonstration application in this paper. A disturbance observer (DOB) is embedded within the steering to path error automated driving loop to handle uncertain parameters such…