Combined Observer-Controller Synthesis for Electro-Hydraulic Servo System with Modeling Uncertainties and Partial State Feedback.

Modeling uncertainties including parameter uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics hinder the development of high-performance tracking controller for hydraulic servo system. The observation for the unknown state is another issue worthy of attention. In this paper, a new seamless observer-controller scheme for hydraulic servo system is proposed with partial feedback. The position signal and the pressure signal are firstly used to build an extended structure estimation system for the unknown state. The advantage of this estimation system is that the state observer provides an extended structure for the parameter adaptation compared to other state observers. Thus the parameter uncertainty can be handled. An adaptive robust controller is synthesized in this paper which includes the adaptive part and the robust part. The adaptive part is used to eliminate the parameter uncertainty. Then the residuals coming from the parameter adaption and the errors coming from the state observation are taken into consideration in the robust part. Moreover, the unmodeled dynamics is also handled by the robust part. Theoretical analysis proves that a prescribed transient performance and the final tracking accuracy can be guaranteed by the proposed observer-controller scheme in the presence of both parameter uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics. Furthermore, the convergence of the closed-loop controller-observer system is achieved with the parametric uncertainty existed only. Extensive comparative experiments performed on a hydraulic actuator demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed observer-controller scheme.