Summary A robust adaptive tracking control scheme is presented for a class of multiple‐input and multiple‐output mechanical systems with unknown disturbances under actuator saturation. The unknown disturbances are expressed as the outputs of a linear exogenous system with unknown coefficient matrices. An adaptive disturbance observer is constructed for the online disturbance estimation. An actuator saturation compensator is introduced to attenuate the adverse effects of actuator saturation. The adaptive backstepping method is then applied to design the robust adaptive tracking control law. It is proved that the designed control law makes the system outputs track the desired trajectories and guarantees the global uniform ultimate stability of the closed‐loop control system. Simulations on a two‐link robotic manipulator verify the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

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Summary In this paper, antidisturbance control and estimation problem are discussed for a class of discrete‐time stochastic systems with nonlinearity and multiple disturbances, which include the disturbance with partially known information and a sequence of random vectors. A disturbance observer is constructed to estimate the disturbance with partially known information. A composite hierarchical antidisturbance control scheme is proposed by combining disturbance observer and H∞ control. It is proved that the 2 different disturbances can be rejected and attenuated, and the corresponding desired performances can be guaranteed for discrete‐time stochastic systems with known and unknown nonlinear dynamics, respectively. Simulation examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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