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This article focuses on the development of functional unknown input observers for systems with arbitrary relative degree. Two distinct approaches are presented to address this challenge. The first approach is tailored to a class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Alexey A. Margun , Alexey A. Bobtsov , Denis V. Efimov , Alexandr D. Panin , Mariia O. Rassolova

This paper considers the problem of designing interval observers for hidden mode switched nonlinear systems with bounded noise signals that are compromised by false data injection and switching attacks. The proposed observer consists of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Mohammad Khajenejad , Zeyuan Jin , Sze Zheng Yong

This brief memo reviews the theory of Unknown Input Observers (UIO) for state estimation in systems subject to disturbance inputs that are not known a priori. One main advantage of the UIO is that the observer structure naturally decouples…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Sam Nazari

In various applications in the field of control engineering the estimation of the state variables of dynamic systems in the presence of unknown inputs plays an important role. Existing methods require the so-called observer matching…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Helmut Niederwieser , Markus Tranninger , Richard Seeber , Markus Reichhartinger

We consider the distributed $H_\infty$ estimation problem with an additional requirement of resilience to biasing attacks. An attack scenario is considered where an adversary misappropriates some of the observer nodes and injects biasing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-18 Valery Ugrinovskii

We study the state estimation problem for linear control systems with quadratic outputs which are locally unobservable at the equilibrium. We show that, despite this inherent lack of observability, an adversary with sensor read and write…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Zeyad M. Manaa , Nathan van de Wouw , Michelle S. Chong

This paper introduces a novel recursive distributed estimation algorithm aimed at synthesizing input and state interval observers for nonlinear bounded-error discrete-time multi-agent systems. The considered systems have sensors and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-21 Mohammad Khajenejad , Scott Brown , Sonia Martinez

This paper discusses stability and robustness properties of a recently proposed observer algorithm for linear time varying systems. The observer is based on the approximation and subsequent modification of the non-negative Lyapunov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Markus Tranninger , Sergiy Zhuk , Martin Steinberger , Leonid Fridman , Martin Horn

This paper addresses the synthesis of interval observers for partially unknown nonlinear systems subject to bounded noise, aiming to simultaneously estimate system states and learn a model of the unknown dynamics. Our approach leverages…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Mohammad Khajenejad , Zeyuan Jin

A resilient state estimation scheme for uniformly observable nonlinear systems, based on a method for local identification of sensor attacks, is presented. The estimation problem is combinatorial in nature, and so many methods require…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Junsoo Kim , Jin Gyu Lee , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

The design of safe-critical control algorithms for systems under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on the system output is studied in this work. We aim to address scenarios where attack-mitigation approaches are not feasible, and the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Santiago Jimenez Leudo , Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

This paper presents a framework on minimal-order appointed-time unknown input observers for linear systems based on the pairwise observer structure. A minimal-order appointed-time observer is first proposed for the linear system without the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Yuezu Lv , Zhongkui Li , Zhisheng Duan

This paper introduces a novel distributed consensus-based observer design that enables a group of agents in an undirected communication network to solve the problem of target tracking, where the target is modelled as a chain of integrators…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Marcelo Jacinto , Pedro Trindade , Francisco Rego , Rita Cunha

This paper is concerned with fault/disturbance compensation control for fully actuated systems. In particular, we explore observer-based control, incorporating an active compensation mechanism. First, we propose a novel observer with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Weijie Ren , Guang-Ren Duan , Ping Li , He Kong

We present a geometric approach to designing distributed unknown input observers (DUIOs) for linear time-invariant systems, where measurements are distributed across nodes and each node is influenced by \emph{unknown inputs} through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Ruixuan Zhao , Guitao Yang , Thomas Parisini , Boli Chen

Unknown-input observers (UIOs) allow for estimation of the states of an LTI system without knowledge of all inputs. In this paper, we provide a novel data-driven UIO based on behavioral system theory and the result known as Fundamental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Mustafa Sahin Turan , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

In this paper, we develop a novel and simple adaptive control scheme for a one-dimensional unstable heat equation with unknown control coefficient. A new state observer is designed to estimate the system state, while a new update law is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Hongyinping Feng , Hai-Li Du

State estimation constitutes a core task in monitoring, supervision, and control of dynamic systems. This paper proposes a data-driven framework for the design of state observers for descriptor systems. Necessary and sufficient conditions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Yuan Zhang , Yu Wang , Keke Huang , Zhongqi Sun , Tyrone Fernando

The design of unknown-input decoupled observers and filters requires the assumption of an existence condition in the literature. This paper addresses an unknown input filtering problem where the existence condition is not satisfied. Instead…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Peng Lu , Erik-Jan van Kampen , Cornelis C. de Visser , Qiping Chu

This paper studies the problem of secure state estimation of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system with bounded noise in the presence of sparse attacks on an unknown, time-varying set of sensors. In other words, at each time, the attacker…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Zishuo Li , Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Changxin Liu , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson