Active filters are power electronics devices used to eliminate harmonics from the distribution network. This article presents an active disturbance rejection control scheme for active filters. The controller is based on a linear disturbance observer combined with a disturbance rejection scheme. The parameter tuning is based on a combined pole placement and an optimal estimation based on Kalman-Bucy filter. Proposed scheme is validated through simulation and experimental work in an active filter. This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in IET Power Electronics (ISSN 1755-4535) [15] are the most popular ones. RC is usually applied using the plug-in architecture. In this architecture the closed-loop poles can be divided in two sets. The closed-loop poles without the repetitive controller and the closed-loop poles of the Repetitive controller which are approximately placed in a circle [16]. This architecture contains only one tuning parameter, k r ∈ (−1, 1), which allows to define the radius of the circle which contains the poles. As a consequence the time response has a very limited range of possibilities. In RC different possibilities exist, most relevant ones are AFC [14] and passivity [17], [18] based. In both cases, the stability is not completely guaranteed by construction and complementary elements must be checked or included. Although the time response can be analyzed [19], it is not clear how to design it. In both cases, Repetitive and Resonant control an input-output formulation is used, no disturbance estimation is directly obtained, no signal/noise relationship is analyzed and only limited time response design is possible.