Journal Article

An Enhanced Active Disturbance Rejection Control for Time-Delay Compensation in Altitude Test Facility

Wu, Guyue, Lin, Hongyu, Zhai, Chao, Feng, Bo, Xu, Xiang, Zhang, Hehong

2025

Overview

The accurate execution of aeroengine flight environment simulation tests relies on the electro-hydraulic servo valve control system in the altitude test facility. However, time delays arising from various factors, such as friction or sensor latency, impose significant constraints on system responsiveness and control precision. To address this challenge, an enhanced active disturbance rejection control has been developed. The proposed method employs an improved output prediction constructed by tracking differentiator to mitigate delay effects, introduces the Taylor compensator to more accurately capture future signal trends, and incorporates a dynamic adjustment mechanism based on error variation to optimize the parameters of the extended state observer in real time, thereby enhancing robustness under varying operating conditions. The simulation results demonstrate that under fixed-delay conditions, the proposed algorithm exhibits fast response characteristics; under varying-delay conditions, unlike model-dependent approaches, it remains less affected by delay fluctuations and maintains superior response speed and stability, thereby ensuring the accuracy of flight environment simulation tests.

• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Subject: Accuracy / active disturbance rejection control / Algorithms / Altitude / altitude test facility / Altitude tests / Compensators / Control algorithms / Control systems / Controllers / Credibility / Delay / Design / enhanced output prediciton / Environment simulation / Flight operations / Hydraulics / Rejection / Sensors / Servocontrol / Servovalves / Signal processing / Simulation methods / State observers / Test facilities / time delay / Valves