Date of Award

2012

Degree Type

Thesis

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Gao, Zhiqiang

Subject Headings

Automatic control, Process control, Hydraulic servomechanisms

Abstract

The intriguing history of disturbance cancellation control is reviewed in this thesis first, which demonstrates that this unique control concept is both reasonable and practical. One novel form of disturbance cancellation, ADRC (Active Disturbance Rejection Control), attracts much attention because of its good disturbance rejection ability and simplicity in implementation. Hydraulic systems tend to have many disturbances and model uncertainties, giving us a great motivation to find out a good control method. In this thesis, electro-hydraulic servo control problem is reformulated to focus on the core problem of disturbance rejection. An ADRC solution is developed and evaluated against the industry standard solution, with promising results

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