An Improved Active Disturbance Rejection Control Method for Crane System

In order to improve the dynamic performance of the underdriven crane system, an improved linear active disturbance rejection controller (LADRC) based on the new error was proposed. The improved LADRC takes the error value between the disturbance and its observed value multiplied by a coefficient as the basis for adjusting the linear extended state observer (LESO). The improved method has two advantages. Firstly, the new error can prevent the traditional LESO from choosing larger parameter adjustment disturbances, which will limit the performance of the observer. Secondly, the pole can be configured by adjusting the coefficient to obtain better dynamic characteristics. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by simulation and experiment. The proposed method can effectively restrain the swing of the payload and it is robust to system parameters perturbation as well.