Volume 24, Issue 7 pp. 1241-1261
Research Article

ISS interval observers for nonlinear systems transformed into triangular systems

Frédéric Mazenc

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Frédéric Mazenc

EPI DISCO, Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S), UMR CNRS 8506, CNRS-Supélec, 3 rue Joliot Curie, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Correspondence to: Frédéric Mazenc, EPI INRIA DISCO, L2S, CNRS-Supélec, 3 rue Joliot Curie, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

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Olivier Bernard

Olivier Bernard

EPI BIOCORE, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia-Antipolis, France

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First published: 10 December 2012
Citations: 20

SUMMARY

Designing an interval observer with stability properties for nonlinear systems, which are not cooperative and not globally Lipschitz, is an open problem. This paper studies a general canonical structure for which interval observers with input to state stability (ISS) properties can be derived. This canonical block triangular nonlinear structure is rather general and may result from a change of coordinates or an output injection. We provide a general method for explicitly constructing framers for systems for which can be given such a structure. We also construct ISS interval observers when additional properties are satisfied. The systems we consider are in general not cooperative and not globally Lipschitz. We illustrate the constructions by designing a framer and an ISS interval observer for two models of bioreactors. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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