Design of Q-Filter-Based Disturbance Observer for Differential Algebraic Equations and a Robust Stability Condition: Zero Relative Degree Case

While the disturbance observer (DOB)-based controller is widely utilized in various practical applications, there has been a lack of extension of its use to differential algebraic equations (DAEs). In this paper, we introduce several lemmas that establish necessary and/or sufficient conditions for specifying the relative degree of DAEs. Using these lemmas, we also figure out that there is a class of DAEs which can be viewed as linear systems with zero relative degree. For the class of DAEs, we propose a design of Q-filter-based DOB as well as a robust stability condition for systems controlled by the DOB through time domain analysis using singular perturbation theory. The proposed stability condition is verified by an illustrative example.