“…The application of GADRC approach to time-delayed processes poses fundamental challenges as the presence of time delay leads to the loss of synchronisation between the inputs of the ESO. Therefore, the ADRC techniques have been modified for time-delayed systems, leading to the formulation of several techniques such as approximation of time delay by a transfer function, Smith predictor–based ADRC (SP-ADRC; Zhang et al, 2020; Zheng and Gao, 2014), predictive observer–based ADRC (PO-ADRC; Xue et al, 2016) and delay-designed ADRC (DD-ADRC; Chen et al, 2018; Fu, 2018; Fu and Tan, 2020; Jain and Hote, 2021b; Tan and Fu, 2015; Zhao and Gao, 2014). The DD-ADRC-based techniques involves the incorporation of delay in the path of control input before it feeds into the observer, while the SP-ADRC-based techniques are based on incorporation of an auxiliary structure named as Smith predictor to deal with the communication delay.…”