On Convergence of Nonlinear Active Disturbance Rejection for SISO Systems

The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) was proposed by Jingqing Han in the late 1990s, which offers a new and inherently robust controller building block that requires very little information of the plant. Originally, the proposal was based largely on experiments with numerous simulations on various systems of different nature. Later, the effective of the control strategy has also been demonstrated in many engineering applications such as motion control, web tension regulation, chemical processes. However, many theoretical issues, including its applicability in stabilization, output regulation remain unanswered. In this paper, we consider the ADRC for general single input single output nonlinear systems subject to dynamical and external uncertainties. We establish conditions that guarantee the ADRC achieving closed-loop system stability, disturbance rejection, and reference tracking.