New Directions in nonlinear observer design

Abstract

A viewpoint on observability and observer design for nonlinear systems.- Model-based observers for tire/road contact friction prediction.- Observer design for nonlinear oscillatory systems.- Transformation to state affine system and observer design.- On existence of extended observers for nonlinear discrete-time systems.- Stability analysis and observer design for nonlinear diffusion processes.- Nonlinear passive observer design for ships with adaptive wave filtering.- Nonlinear observer design for integration of DGPS and INS.- Variants of nonlinear normal form observer design.- Separation results for semiglobal stabilization of nonlinear systems via measurement feedback.- Observer-controller design for global tracking of nonholonomic systems.- A separation principle for a class of euler-lagrange systems.- High-gain observers in nonlinear feedback control.- Output-Feedback Control of stochastic nonlinear systems.- Output feedback control of food-chain systems.- Output feedback tracking control for ships.- Dynamic UCO controllers and semiglobal stabilization of uncertain nonminimum phase systems by output feedback.- Fault detection observer for a class of nonlinear systems.- Nonlinear observer for signal and parameter fault detection in ship propulsion control.- Nonlinear observers for fault detection and isolation.- Application of nonlinear observers to fault detection and isolation.- Innovation generation for bilinear systems with unknown inputs.- Synchronization through extended kalman filtering.- Nonlinear discrete-time observers for synchronization problems.- Chaos synchronization.