Active Disturbance Rejection Control: Theory, Design, and Applications in Advanced Actuation Systems
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Control Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adaptive control of nonlinear dynamical systems; active disturbance rejection control; differential algebraic systems; digital signal processing
Interests: fractional differential equations; integral boundary conditions; Banach contraction principle; dynamical systems; fractional-order systems; delay differential equations; mathematical modelling
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Interests: adaptive/statistical signal processing; independent component analysis; wireless communications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing complexity of modern engineering systems demands robust control strategies capable of maintaining performance in the presence of uncertainties, nonlinearities, and external disturbances. Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) has emerged as a powerful, model-independent control framework that achieves this by estimating and actively compensating for total disturbances in real time. Over the past two decades, ADRC has seen significant theoretical advancements and a broadening range of applications, spanning robotics, power systems, process control, aerospace, and biomedical systems. Recent research has emphasized improved observer and controller design, stability and robustness analysis, tuning methodologies, and the integration of ADRC with data-driven or AI-enhanced techniques. Practical implementations have also addressed challenges related to digital realization, sensor limitations, and real-time computational efficiency.
This Special Issue aims to showcase original research and review articles that reflect the state of the art in ADRC, highlighting new theoretical developments, practical innovations, and application-driven studies. We welcome contributions that advance the understanding or implementation of ADRC across diverse domains, including both simulation-based and experimental work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, observer design, control synthesis, tuning strategies, hybrid methods, robustness analysis, and emerging applications. Papers exploring interdisciplinary approaches or novel uses of ADRC in challenging control scenarios are particularly encouraged.
Dr. Yan Wu
Prof. Dr. Seenith Sivasundaram
Dr. Thomas Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- extended state observer
- nonlinear control
- bandwidth parametrization
- error feedback control
- dynamic compensation
- robustness
- model independence
- decoupling
- tracking differentiator
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