On the convergence of tracking differentiator with multiple stochastic disturbances

Abstract

This paper investigates the convergence, noise-tolerance, and filtering performance of a tracking differentiator in the presence of multiple stochastic disturbances for the first time. We consider a general case wherein the input signal is corrupted by additive colored noise, and the tracking differentiator is disturbed by additive colored noise and white noise. The tracking differentiator is shown to track the input signal and its generalized derivatives in the mean square sense. Further, the almost sure convergence can be achieved when the stochastic noise affecting the input signal is vanishing. Herein, numerical simulations are performed to validate the theoretical results.