Modified active disturbance rejection control with pre-compensation for a class of high-order system

With more and more sustainable energy integrated into the bulk power system, the coal-fired unit is obliged to speed up the response to the deep peek and frequency regulation command, and this results in great challenges for the control systems. To improve the control performance of the coal-fired unit, a modified active disturbance rejection control with pre-compensation (PMADRC) is proposed for highorder systems with the type of K/(Ts+1)(n). The stability, sensitivity, and robustness of the proposed PMADRC are analyzed. An effective tuning procedure is also provided based on plenty of simulations. Besides, contrastive simulations and experiments based on the water tank level control platform validate the superiority of PMADRC in setpoint tracking and disturbance rejection. The advantages of the PMADRC guarantee high control performance and make it have the potential for applications in coal-fired units. Copyright (c) 2023 The Authors.