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The Kazantzis-Kravaris-Luenberger (KKL) observer provides a general framework for nonlinear state estimation by immersing the system dynamics into a stable linear or nonlinear latent dynamics. However, the performance of KKL observers…
The theory of Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observer design introduces a methodology that uses a nonlinear transformation map and its left inverse to estimate the state of a nonlinear system through the introduction of a linear…
This work proposes an interval observer design for nonlinear discrete-time systems based on the Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) paradigm. Our design extends to generic nonlinear systems without any assumption on the structure of its…
This paper proposes a novel learning approach for designing Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observers for autonomous nonlinear systems. The design of a KKL observer involves finding an injective map that transforms the system state into…
Relying on recent research results on Neural ODEs, this paper presents a methodology for the design of state observers for nonlinear systems based on Neural ODEs, learning Luenberger-like observers and their nonlinear extension…
This paper presents a first step towards tuning observers for general nonlinear systems. Relying on recent results around Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observers, we propose an empirical criterion to guide the calibration of the…
We address the problem of output prediction, ie. designing a model for autonomous nonlinear systems capable of forecasting their future observations. We first define a general framework bringing together the necessary properties for the…
This paper proposes HyperKKL, a novel learning approach for designing Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observers for non-autonomous nonlinear systems. While KKL observers offer a rigorous theoretical framework by immersing nonlinear…
Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observers are a class of state observers for nonlinear systems that rely on an injective map to transform the nonlinear dynamics into a stable quasi-linear latent space, from where the state estimate is…
In this paper we propose a new observer design technique for nonlinear systems. It combines the well-known Kazantzis-Kravaris-Luenberger observer and the recently introduced parameter estimation-based observer, which become special cases of…
State observation is necessary for feedback control but often challenging for nonlinear systems. While Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observer gives a generic design, its model-based numerical solution is difficult. In this paper, we…
The increasing use of data-driven control strategies gives rise to the problem of learning-based state observation. Motivated by this need, the present work proposes a data-driven approach for the synthesis of state observers for…
This work proposes a method for model-free synthesis of a state observer for nonlinear systems with manipulated inputs, where the observer is trained offline using a historical or simulation dataset of state measurements. We use the…
This paper focuses on the model-free synthesis of state observers for nonlinear autonomous systems without knowing the governing equations. Specifically, the Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observer structure is leveraged, where the…
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…
We state sufficient conditions for the existence, on a given open set, of the extension, to nonlinear systems, of the Luenberger observer as it has been proposed by Kazantzis and Kravaris. We prove it is sufficient to choose the dimension…
The signal of system states needed for feedback controllers is estimated by state observers. One state observer design is the Kazantzis-Kravaris/Luenberger (KKL) observer, a generalization of the Luenberger observer for linear systems. The…
A new approach to design of nonlinear observers (state estimators) is proposed. The main idea is to (i) construct a convex set of dynamical systems which are contracting observers for a particular system, and (ii) optimize over this set for…
The contraction properties of the Extended Kalman Filter, viewed as a deterministic observer for nonlinear systems, are analyzed. This yields new conditions under which exponential convergence of the state error can be guaranteed. As…
This paper develops a connection between the asymptotic stability of nonlinear filters and a notion of observability. We consider a general class of hidden Markov models in continuous time with compact signal state space, and call such a…