title: Anti-disturbance control theory for systems with multiple disturbances: a survey.
abstract: The problem of anti-disturbance control has been an eternal topic along with the development of the control theory. However, most methodologies can only deal with systems subject to a single equivalent disturbance which was merged by various types of uncertainties. In this paper, a review on anti-disturbance control is presented for systems with multiple disturbances. First, the classical control methods are briefly reviewed for disturbance attenuation or rejection problems. Then, recent advances in disturbance observer based control (DOBC) theory are introduced and especially, the composite hierarchical anti-disturbance control (CHADC) is firstly addressed. A comparison of different approaches is briefly carried out. Finally, focuses in the field on the current research are also addressed with emphasis on the practical application of the techniques.
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory on Aircraft Control Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, PR China. Electronic address: lguo@buaa.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory on Aircraft Control Technology, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, PR China; Department of Automation, College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, PR China. Electronic address: caosongyin@163.com.
authors.forename: Songyin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cao
keywords: Anti-disturbance control; Composite hierarchical anti-disturbance control; Disturbance observer based control; Disturbance rejection and attenuation; Multiple disturbances; Robust control