“…For such kind of systems, the model in (1) should be replaced by the following: where d represents the lump sum disturbance including the plant certainty. To reject the adverse impact induced by disturbance, some kind of compensation needs to be embedded in the controller (see e.g., [1, 6, 7]). Assuming a piecewise constant disturbance and augmenting the plant model, we can design a reduced‐order ESO for simultaneous estimation of the un‐measured speed and unknown disturbance: where is the observer state, while and , respectively, are the estimated values of speed v and disturbance d .…”