Cancelation of unknown multiharmonic disturbance for nonlinear plant with input delay

In this paper, a new approach for cancelation of a multiharmonic disturbance is proposed. Compared with a number of known results in this paper, the disturbance cancelation problem is solved when the output variable is measured only, a relative degree of the plant is arbitrary and the control channel has delay. The numerical example is presented to illustrate the theoretical result. The reaction wheel pendulum on a movable platform is considered as the plant to demonstrate that the proposed approach is realizable and can be plugged in practice. The second goal is the development of mechatronic applications for use in education. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.