# Generalized Proportional–Integral–Derivative Interpretation of a Class of Improved Two-Degree-of-Freedom Controllers

## TL;DR

This paper compares traditional and improved ADRC controllers, showing the improved version offers better performance and fewer parameters.

## Contribution

The paper establishes a mathematical link between traditional and improved ADRC from a generalized PID control perspective.

## Key findings

- Improved ADRC eliminates overshoot during set value tracking and has faster response times.
- Improved ADRC achieves better disturbance rejection with significantly smaller voltage drops.
- The improved ADRC uses fewer parameters than generalized PID control.

## Abstract

In the framework of the traditional active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC), the state error feedback utilizes estimated values from the extended state observer, which may introduce phase lag. Therefore, academic researchers have proposed a modified version called the improved linear ADRC that employs output values from the plant for state error feedback except the output value from the extended state observer. However, there is limited literature exploring the relationship between traditional linear ADRC and improved linear ADRC. To address this gap, this article establishes mathmatical relationship between traditional linear ADRC and improved linear ADRC from the generalized PID control perspective, highlighting their distinctions in the frequency domain. Compared to the traditional ADRC, the improved ADRC incorporates differential terms and offers a novel approach to realize the generalized PID control via generalized PID interpretation. And to be more specific, the improved ADRC is a new way to realize the generalized PID control by three tuned parameters, and the number of parameters of the improved ADRC is fewer than that of the generalized PID control. From the time domain, numerical simulation results demonstrate that improved ADRC exhibits superior control performance by eliminating overshoot during set value tracking processes compared to the traditional ADRC. From the disturbance rejection simulations in direct current to direct current converter (DCDC), the improved ADRC can achieve better disturbance rejection performance than the traditional ADRC. The DC bus voltage drop values of the traditional ADRC are 55.8 V and 32 V; thus, the biggest voltage drop is 55.8 V, which is 7.44 times the the improved ADRC. The voltage rise of improved ADRC can be neglected compared to the voltage rise of the traditional ADRC. From the tracking performance perspective, the time to fully reach the reference value of the traditional ADRC is about 0.3 s, and the time to fully reach the reference value of the improved ADRC is about 0.15 s.