报告题目：Disturbance observer based control technique: Concept, Methods and Challenges

报 告 人：Wen-Hua Chen教授（英国拉夫堡大学）

报告时间：2018年07月24日10：00

报告地点：南一楼中312室

Abstract:

Disturbance rejection and robustness are essential in all the control systems designs. Disturbance Observer Based Control (DOBC) and related methods have been researched and applied in various industrial sectors in the last four decades. This talk gives an overview of a number of widely used linear and nonlinear disturbance/uncertainty estimation techniques, and then discusses and compares various compensation techniques and the procedures of integrating disturbance/uncertainty compensation with a (pre-designed) linear/nonlinear controller. It provides analysis of their similarities and differences with a number of well-known control methods such as robust control and adaptive control. It shows that DOBC and related methods provide a promising, flexible and versatile approach in dealing with disturbance and uncertainty. Finally challenges in further development of DOBC techniques will be discussed.

Speaker Biography：

Wen-Hua Chen holds Professor in autonomous vehicles in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University, where he is also heading the Controls and Reliability Research Group. Before joining Loughborough in 2000 as Lecturer, Dr. Chen was a Research Fellow and then a Lecturer in Control Engineering in the Centre for Systems and Control at University of Glasgow. He was working in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics for several years after receiving his Master and PhD degrees in Northeastern University. Dr Chen has a considerable experience in advanced control and signal processing and their applications in aerospace and automotive engineering. In the last 12 years, he has been spending most of his effort in developing autonomous system technologies and their applications in agriculture, environment and defence. Prof Chen was elected as a Changjiang Visiting Professor by the Ministry of Education of China, and is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of IEEE, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK.