Disturbances and uncertainties widely exist in most engineering systems and always bringadverse effects on control performance of the closed-loop systems. Design and analysis of nonlinearcontrol systems under disturbances isan activeresearch topic in control systems societies.Many advanced disturbance/uncertainty estimation and attenuation (DUEA)techniques have been developedto dealwith systems in the presence of variousdisturbances andparametricuncertainties, for example stochasticcontrol, output regulatorcontrol, H∞control, sliding mode control, disturbanceobserver based control(DOBC), and active disturbance rejection control (ADRC), etc.DUEAshows many promisingproperties for practical applications including “flexibility for implementation”, “nominal performance recovery”and “prominent disturbance rejection ability”.

Consequently, DUEAprobablyprovidesa steam ofefficient solutions for improving the control performance of complex nonlinear systems. In this context, we wish to propose an invited session for the IECON2017entitledAdvances in Disturbance/Uncertainty Estimation and Attenuation Techniques With Applications.