Design of ADRC for Second-Order Mechanical Systems without Time-Derivatives in the Tracking Controller

In this article, the problem of designing Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) for a class of second-order mechanical systems, expressed with Euler-Lagrange equations, is studied. A specific and practically motivated case is considered here, namely trajectory tracking task without the use of signal time-derivatives in the tracking controller. A general solution is proposed showing how to synthesize and tune the observer and the controller...