Design of an Observer-Based Repetitive Control System to Reject Periodic Disturbance

Abstract

This paper concerns the design of an observer-based repetitive control system (RCS) to improve the periodic disturbance rejection performance. The periodic disturbance is estimated by a repetitive learning based estimator (RLE) and rejected by incorporation of the estimation into a repetitive control (RC) input. Firstly, the configuration of the observer-based RCS with the RLE is described. Then, a continuous–discrete two-dimensional (2D) model is built to describe the RCS. By choosing an appropriate Lyapunov functional, a sufficient condition is proposed to guarantee the stability of the RCS. Finally, a numerical example is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.