Figure 5 (Qiang et al., 2006). presented the results on the modeling and control of a pneumatic system. With Levenberg-Marquardt method, a neural network model, from which a third-order ARX model was derived, has been developed for the pneumatic system. Based on the built ARX model, a direct digital controller was designed with Ragazzini method. To reject external noise, a disturbance observer (DOB) was constructed as shown in figure (4) to improve the control accuracy. The experimental results of the position control for the pneumatic system were given to demonstrate the performance of the DOB-based controller. The accuracy and response speed were satisfactory for both steady state and dynamic tracking.