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High-gain nonlinear observers occur in the nonlinear automatic control theory and are in standard usage in chemical engineering processes. We apply such a type of analysis in the context of a very simple one-gene regulation circuit. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-07-16 L. A. Torres , V. Ibarra-Junquera , P. Escalante-Minakata , H. C. Rosu

This paper presents a systematic observer design methodology for a class of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems with state-dependent input matrices. Such systems can model a wide range of electromechanical systems, including magnetic levitation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Filippo Ugolini , Ning Liu , Yongxin Wu , Yann Le Gorrec , Alessandro Macchelli

In recent years, the distributed-observer-based distributed control law has shown powerful ability to arbitrarily approximate the centralized control performance. However, the traditional distributed observer requires each local observer to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Haotian Xu , Shuai Liu , Ling Shi

Various methods are nowadays available to design observers for broad classes of systems. Nevertheless, the question of the tuning of the observer to achieve satisfactory estimation performance remains largely open. This paper presents a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 E. Petri , R. Postoyan , D. Astolfi , D. Nešić , V. Andrieu

The paper shows that positive linear systems can be stabilized using positive Luenberger-type observers. This is achieved by structuring the observer as monotonically converging upper and lower bounds on the state. Analysis of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 David Ohlin , Anders Rantzer , Emma Tegling

We propose an observer design for a cascaded system composed of an arbitrary nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) with a 1D heat equation. The nonlinear output of the ODE imposes a boundary condition on one side of the heat…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Adam Braun , Lucas Brivadis , Jean Auriol

We study how convergence of an observer whose state lives in a copy of the given system's space can be established using a Riemannian metric. We show that the existence of an observer guaranteeing the property that a Riemannian distance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Laurent Praly

This work proposes a detectability condition for linear time-varying systems based on the exponential dichotomy spectrum. The condition guarantees the existence of an observer, whose gain is determined only by the unstable modes of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Markus Tranninger , Richard Seeber , Martin Steinberger , Martin Horn , Christian Pötzsche

This paper introduces a new nonlinear observer for state estimation of linear time invariant systems. The proposed observer contains a (nonlinear) cubic term in its error dynamics. "For the final version of this article, please refer to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Mohammad Mahdi Share Pasand

This paper investigates the output feedback stabilization of parabolic equation with Lipschitz nonlinearity over general multidimensional domain using spectral geometry theories. First, a novel nonlinear observer is designed, and the error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Kai Liu , Hua-Cheng Zhou , Zhong-Jie Han , Xiangyang Peng

This paper investigates the design of reduced-order observers for robotic manipulators. Observer stability conditions are obtained based on a Lyapunov analysis and the proposed observer is enhanced with a hybrid scheme that may adjust the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Andrea Cristofaro , Alessandro De Luca

This paper deals with the observer design problem for time-varying linear infinite-dimensional systems. We address both the problem of online estimation of the state of the system from the output via an asymptotic observer, and the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Lucas Brivadis , Vincent Andrieu , Ulysse Serres , Jean-Paul Gauthier

We derive sufficient conditions for the solvability of the state estimation problem for a class of nonlinear control time-varying systems which includes those, whose dynamics have triangular structure. The state estimation is exhibited by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-07 John Tsinias , Constantinos Kitsos

In this paper, we introduce a new sliding mode observer for Lur'e set-valued dynamical systems, particularly addressing challenges posed by uncertainties not within the standard range of observation. Traditionally, most of Luenberger-like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Samir Adly , Jun Huang , Ba Khiet Le

This paper studies the reduced-order or full-order, dead-beat observer problem for a class of nonlinear systems, linear in the unmeasured states. A novel hybrid observer design strategy is proposed, with the help of the notion of strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Iasson Karafyllis , Zhong-Ping Jiang

The sliding mode observer is a useful method for estimating the system state and the unknown disturbance. However, the traditional single-layer observer might still suffer from high pulse when the output measurement is mixed with noise. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Yiyong Sun , Zhang Chen , Guang Zhai , Bin Liang

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing an asymptotic observer for a nonlin-ear dynamical system in discrete-time following Luenberger's original idea. This approach is a two-step design procedure. In a first step, the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-10 Lucas Brivadis , Vincent Andrieu , Ulysse Serres

We consider the one-dimensional quasilinear heat equation with state-dependent heat capacity and thermal conductivity, and design a boundary-output observer based on the backstepping design for a linear heat equation with constant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Mohamed Camil Belhadjoudja , Kirsten A. Morris

This paper is devoted to analyzing the observer convergence rate for a class of linear control systems in a Hilbert space. To characterize the polynomial stability of the observer error system, we apply the spectral theory of linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Alexander Zuyev , Julia Kalosha

Feature-based homography estimation approaches rely on extensive image processing for feature extraction and matching, and do not adequately account for the information provided by the image. Therefore, developing efficient direct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Tarek Bouazza , Pieter Van Goor , Robert Mahony , Tarek Hamel