High-Gain Like Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems Applied to Vehicle Motion Estimation

Abstract

This work investigates the problem of state estimation for nonlinear triangular systems having additional output measurements. The main objective of this paper is to propose observer design strategies that account for the available additional information, which is difficult to consider using the standard high-gain observer methodology. To deal with this challenge, we propose a novel observer design method to handle the additional output measurements. This method can be thought of as an extension of the standard high-gain observer by introducing a weighting matrix as a tuning parameter, which uses both the high-gain methodology and the LPV/LMI technique. The proposed approach was applied to a nonlinear longitudinal dynamic model that uses extra measurement information, in addition to the measured longitudinal position of the vehicle.