Adaptive Add-On Output Regulator for Rejection of Sinusoidal Disturbances and Application to Optical Disc Drives

In this paper, we revisit an add-on output feedback controller that achieves output regulation and disturbance rejection. By add-on controller, we mean an additional controller, which runs harmonically with a preinstalled controller that has been in operation for the plant. When the disturbance attenuation performance of the preinstalled controller is not satisfactory, the add-on controller can be used to eliminate the disturbance. Some advantages of the proposed add-on controller include that it can be designed without much information about the preinstalled controller and it can be plugged in the feedback loop any time in operation without causing unnecessary transient response. In particular, we propose an adaptive add-on controller, which can eliminate sinusoidal disturbances of unknown frequencies. Both simulation and experimental results of the track-following control for optical disc drive systems confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.