Disturbance rejection approaches of Korteweg–de Vries-Burgers equation under event-triggering mechanism

In this paper, disturbance rejection approaches are suggested to stabilize Korteweg–de Vries–Burgers (KdVB) equation under the averaged measurements. Here two approaches—active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) and disturbance observer-based control (DOBC), are introduced to reject the external unknown disturbance actively. The main challenging issue is to design the effective extended state observer (ESO)/disturbance observer (DO) for KdVB equation respectively. As for ADRC strategy, the disturbance is rejected on the basis of an ESO. As for DOBC strategy, a DO is constructed to estimate the disturbance formulated by an exogenous system. Continuous-time and event-triggered anti-disturbance controllers are further presented for distributed stabilization of KdVB system. To significantly reduce the amount of control updates, an event-triggering mechanism is utilized and the Zeno behaviour is avoided. Sufficient stability conditions are established via Lyapunov functional method. The effectiveness of proposed approaches is verified by simulation results.