Almost disturbance decoupling and tracking control for multi-input multi-output non-linear uncertain systems: Application to a half-car active suspension system

This study presents a novel feedback linearization control of non-linear multi-input multi-output uncertain systems for the tracking and almost disturbance decoupling performances. The main contribution of this study is to construct a controller, under appropriate conditions, such that the resulting closed-loop system is valid for any initial condition and bounded tracking signal with the following characteristics: input-to-state stability with respect to disturbance inputs and almost disturbance decoupling. In addition, a new theorem on robust stability is proposed in this study to provide a new criterion for closed-loop stability. A typical case, which cannot be solved by any previous study on the almost disturbance decoupling problem, is proposed in this study to exploit the fact that the tracking and the almost disturbance decoupling performances can be easily achieved by the proposed approach. Finally, the proposed control law is simulated in a half-car active suspension system on which the effectiveness of the design is verified.