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Control of uncertain dynamical systems has been an area of active research for the past several decades and to this end, various robust control approaches have been proposed in the literature. The active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) represents one prominent approach that has been widely studied and applied for designing robust controllers in diverse areas of engineering applications. In this work, a brief review of the approach and some of its applications in aerospace are discussed. The results show that the approach possesses immense potential to offer viable solution to real-life aerospace problems.
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S. E. TALOLE obtained his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Govt. College of Engineering, Amravati, M.E. in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Flight Dynamics and Control Laboratory of the University of California Irvine, U.S.A. In 1989, he joined the Defence Research and Development Organization, India, where currently he is Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Girinagar, Pune. Research interests of Dr Talole include nonlinear control and robust control based on uncertainty and disturbance estimation with applications in flight guidance and control, robotics, and control of marine vehicles. He has published over 115 papers in various international and national journals and conferences. He is recipient of the DIAT Researcher of the Year award in 2007 and Laboratory Scientist of the Year award in the year 2002. In 2010, he was honored with the DRDO Scientist of the Year Award.
Dr Talole is Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), The Aeronautical Society of India and The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers and Member of Astronautical Society of India and Automatic Control & Dynamics Optimization Society (ACDOS) of India.
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Talole, S.E. Active disturbance rejection control: Applications in aerospace. Control Theory Technol. 16, 314–323 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11768-018-8114-1
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