Vibration suppression using single neuron-based PI fuzzy controller and fractional-order disturbance observer

An approach is proposed for vibration suppression in a two-inertia system using an integration of a fractional-order disturbance observer and a single neuron-based PI fuzzy controller. The former is used to obtain disturbance estimate and generate compensation signal, and the latter is utilized to realize outer loop control. Fractional-order disturbance observer has a wider range to select a suitable tradeoff between robustness and vibration suppression, because introduction of fractional calculus makes universe of relative degree of Q-filter is expanded from integer domain to real-number domain. For the single neuron-based PI fuzzy controller, a single neuron makes up a PI controller and such a controller is embedded in each cell of the fuzzy control table. Thus, the fuzzy control table is changed into a controller matrix and it constructs a nonlinear adaptive controller with parameter self-tuning property. Experimental results illustrate that the integration of fractional-order disturbance observer and single neuron-based PI fuzzy controller can improve the performance of disturbance attenuation and system robustness.