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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,701 Views
21 Pages

21 November 2017

An observer design for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown inputs is considered. Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy bilinear systems represent a wide class of nonlinear systems, and these systems with unknown inputs are an ideal model for many physical system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
956 Views
23 Pages

Robust Observer Design for the Longitudinal Dynamics of a Fixed-Wing Aircraft

  • Uygar Gunes,
  • Artun Sel,
  • Erdi Sayar and
  • Cosku Kasnakoglu

7 September 2025

This paper presents a novel control-based observer (CbO) framework for robust state and disturbance estimation in the longitudinal dynamics of fixed-wing aircraft. In this approach, the observer design problem is recast as an equivalent control probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,029 Views
18 Pages

Switched Observer Design for a Class of Non-Linear Systems

  • Ivan Francisco Yupanqui Tello,
  • Daniel Coutinho and
  • Renzo Martín Mendoza Rabanal

This paper is concerned with the switched observer design for a class of systems subject to locally Lipschitz non-linearities. By performing a suitable description of the estimation error dynamics into a linear parameter varying (LPV) system represen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,027 Views
12 Pages

Observer Design for Fractional-Order Polynomial Fuzzy Systems Depending on a Parameter

  • Hamdi Gassara,
  • Mohamed Rhaima,
  • Lassaad Mchiri and
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf

For fractional-order systems, observer design is remarkable for the estimation of unavailable states from measurable outputs. In addition, the nonlinear dynamics and the presence of parameters that can vary over different operating conditions or time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,292 Views
12 Pages

26 August 2022

In this study, a type of nonlinear observer design is studied for a class of nonlinear systems. For the construction of the nonlinear observer, SOS-based optimization tools are utilized, which for some nonlinear dynamical systems have the advantage o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,283 Views
15 Pages

On Observer and Controller Design for Nonlinear Hadamard Fractional-Order One-Sided Lipschitz Systems

  • Assaad Jmal,
  • Omar Naifar,
  • Mohamed Rhaima,
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf and
  • Lassaad Mchiri

This paper presents an extensive investigation into the state feedback stabilization, observer design, and observer-based controller design for a specific category of nonlinear Hadamard fractional-order systems. The research extends the conventional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,426 Views
21 Pages

Fault Tolerant Control Based on an Observer on PI Servo Design for a High-Speed Automation Machine

  • Prathan Chommuangpuck,
  • Thanasak Wanglomklang,
  • Suradet Tantrairatn and
  • Jiraphon Srisertpol

The fault tolerant control (FTC) technique is widely used in many industries to provide tolerance to systems so that they can operate when a system fault occurs. This paper presents a technique for FTC based on the observer signal application, which...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,801 Views
20 Pages

24 December 2021

This paper develops a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy observer gain design algorithm to estimate ship motion based on Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. Nowadays, AIS data is widely applied in the maritime field. To solve the problem of safety, it is ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,334 Views
12 Pages

10 April 2024

This article designs an observer for the joint estimation of the state and the unknown input for a class of nonlinear fractional-order systems (FOSs) such that one portion satisfies the Lipschitz condition and the other does not necessarily satisfy s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,646 Views
18 Pages

This paper addresses the design and evaluation of a robust observer for second order bioprocesses considering unknown bounded disturbance terms and uncertainty in the dynamics of the unknown and known states. The observer design and the stability ana...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,065 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2020

Among the existing estimation schemes of a battery state of charge, most deal with an assumption that the faults will never occur in the system. Nevertheless, faults may have a crucial impact on the state of charge estimation accuracy. The paper prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,172 Views
20 Pages

Design of a Humanoid Upper-Body Robot and Trajectory Tracking Control via ZNN with a Matrix Derivative Observer

  • Hong Yin,
  • Hongzhe Jin,
  • Yuchen Peng,
  • Zijian Wang,
  • Jiaxiu Liu,
  • Fengjia Ju and
  • Jie Zhao

Humanoid robots have attracted considerable attention for their anthropomorphic structure, extended workspace, and versatile capabilities. This paper presents a novel humanoid upper-body robotic system comprising a pair of 8-degree-of-freedom (DOF) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,182 Views
23 Pages

7 July 2021

Most research activities that utilize linear matrix inequality (LMI) techniques are based on the assumption that the separation principle of control and observer synthesis holds. This principle states that the combination of separately designed linea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,923 Views
22 Pages

30 October 2021

This paper is focused on the stabilization of Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model-based Markovian jump systems with the aid of a delayed state observer. Due to network-induced constraints in the communication channel, a delay partition method combined with an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,195 Views
14 Pages

22 March 2021

This paper investigates the observer-based fuzzy controller design method for nonlinear discrete-time singular systems that are represented by Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models. At first, the nonlinearity can be well-approximated with several local li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,721 Views
31 Pages

Soft Sensor Design via Switching Observers

  • Fotis N. Koumboulis,
  • Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis,
  • Nikolaos D. Kouvakas and
  • Aikaterini Feidopiasti

13 February 2023

The goal of the paper is the design of soft sensors for single input single output (SISO) nonlinear processes. This goal is of essential importance for process monitoring, fault detection and fault isolation. The observer-based technique, being a fru...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,891 Views
13 Pages

Learning Design, as a field of research, provides practitioners with guidelines towards more effective teaching and learning. In parallel, observational methods (manual or automated) have been used in the classroom to reflect on and refine teaching a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,064 Views
17 Pages

3 November 2022

The main barrier to the publication of observational research is a perceived inferiority to randomised designs with regard to the reliability of their conclusions. This commentary addresses this issue and makes a set of recommendations. It analyses t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
950 Views
17 Pages

The integrated design problem of non-fragile controllers and extended state observers (ESOs) for nonlinear unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) under mismatched disturbances is addressed in this paper. First, an integrated model combining the USV system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,016 Views
22 Pages

The relationship between people and designed space is often approached exclusively with text-based research techniques (e.g., interviews and questionnaires). After proposing a theoretical framework for design from a sociological perspective, this pap...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,955 Views
9 Pages

Observer Backstepping Design for Flight Control

  • Ben Messaoud Safinaz,
  • Belkheiri Mohammed and
  • Belkheiri Ahmed

This paper presents observer backstepping as a new nonlinear flight control design framework. Flight control laws for general-purpose maneuvering in the presence of nonlinear lift and side forces are designed. The controlled variables are the angle o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,457 Views
20 Pages

In the sensorless control algorithm of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs), there is a significant research focus on developing a high-performance position observer and a cost-effective, high-performance processor specifically designed for PM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,138 Views
15 Pages

Intentional Observational Clinical Research Design: Innovative Design for Complex Clinical Research Using Advanced Technology

  • Tetsuya Tanioka,
  • Rozzano C. Locsin,
  • Feni Betriana,
  • Yoshihiro Kai,
  • Kyoko Osaka,
  • Elizabeth Baua and
  • Savina Schoenhofer

The growing use of robots in nursing and healthcare facilities has prompted increasing research on human–robot interactions. However, specific research designs that can guide researchers to conduct rigorous investigations on human–robot interactions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,187 Views
19 Pages

Velocity Observer Design for Tether Deployment in Hamiltonian Framework

  • Jihang Yang,
  • Guanzheng Chen,
  • Mingming Zhang,
  • Gangqiang Li and
  • Jinyu Liu

20 December 2024

This paper presents a nonlinear velocity observer of tether deployment using the immersion and invariance technique, and the velocity observer design problem is recast as a problem of designing an attractive and invariant manifold inside the Hamilton...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,217 Views
16 Pages

Nonlinear Functional Observer Design for Robot Manipulators

  • Hoang Vu Dao,
  • Manh Hung Nguyen and
  • Kyoung Kwan Ahn

22 September 2023

In this paper, a nonlinear functional observer (NFO) is first proposed for the control design of robot manipulators under model uncertainties, external disturbances, and a lack of joint velocity information. In principle, the proposed NFO can estimat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,928 Views
12 Pages

30 June 2022

In this paper, a methodology for a non-linear system state estimation is demonstrated, exploiting the input and parameter observability. For this purpose, the initial system is transformed into the canonical observability form, and the function that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,961 Views
19 Pages

26 March 2022

The Earth’s radiation budget (ERB), measured at the top of the atmosphere (TOP), quantifies the radiation imbalance between the Earth–atmosphere system and space. The ERB’s measurement accuracy depends on the observation system’s design and calibrati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,489 Views
11 Pages

Design of High Precision Interval Observer for Robot System

  • Shuang Duan,
  • Zhida Shao,
  • Xinyao Chen,
  • Xuan Li,
  • Yiyang Chen and
  • Haidong He

9 March 2023

In order to solve the problem of parameter uncertainty and unknown external interference of wheeled mobile robots (WMR) in a complex environment, the design of a high-precision interval observer for the robot system is proposed. In this paper, the ki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,486 Views
20 Pages

Observability Analysis and Observer Design for a Nonlinear Three-Tank System: Theory and Experiments

  • Santiago Rúa,
  • Rafael E. Vásquez,
  • Naveen Crasta and
  • Carlos A. Zuluaga

25 November 2020

This paper addresses the observability analysis and observer design for a nonlinear interacting three-tank system. The plant configuration is first described using the process and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) and a state–space realization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,288 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2021

State observers are essential components of a modern control system. It is often designed based on a mathematical model of the process, thus requiring detailed process knowledge. However, in the existing state estimation methods, equal delays are com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,160 Views
29 Pages

12 July 2021

In Kalman filter design, the filter algorithm and prediction model design are the most discussed topics in research. Another fundamental but less investigated issue is the careful selection of measurands and their contribution to the estimation probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,727 Views
40 Pages

Next-Generation C-Band SAR Mission: Design Concept for Earth Observation Service Continuity

  • Igor Zakharov,
  • Desmond Power,
  • Peter McGuire,
  • Michael Völker,
  • Jung-Hyo Kim,
  • Matteo Emanuelli,
  • Joseph Chamberland,
  • Mike Stott,
  • Sherry Warren and
  • Yue Ma
  • + 3 authors

19 November 2025

This paper presents the findings related to the design solution options for a next-generation C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mission, developed to address the Harmonized User Needs (HUN) in Earth observation (EO) data as defined by several dep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,367 Views
13 Pages

28 December 2022

The observer design and dynamic output feedback control for a class of nonlinear networked systems are studied in this paper. The model of the networked systems is established by using T-S fuzzy method, and the state observer of the systems is design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,040 Views
15 Pages

24 November 2022

The modeling and drive control of electric machines are still actively researched scientific topics. Most of the existing models contain parameters that have no physical content or cannot be measured at all. For this reason, the use of observers in m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,327 Views
23 Pages

Observer Design for Nonlinear Invertible System from the View of Both Local and Global Levels

  • Mei Zhang,
  • Qinmu Wu,
  • Xiangping Chen,
  • Boutaïeb Dahhou and
  • Zetao Li

10 November 2020

This paper emphasizes the importance of the influences of local dynamics on the global dynamics of a control system. By considering an actuator as an individual, nonlinear subsystem connected with a nonlinear process subsystem in cascade, a structure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,969 Views
19 Pages

16 December 2024

The design and calculation of nonlinear observers for parameter estimation in multi-time-scale nonlinear systems present significant challenges due to the inherent complexity and stiffness of such systems. This study proposes a framework for designin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,002 Views
14 Pages

Fuzzy Luenberger Observer Design for Nonlinear Flexible Joint Robot Manipulator

  • Houssem Jerbi,
  • Izzat Al-Darraji,
  • Georgios Tsaramirsis,
  • Mourad Kchaou,
  • Rabeh Abbassi and
  • Obaid AlShammari

The process of controlling a Flexible Joint Robot Manipulator (FJRM) requires additional sensors for measuring the state variables of flexible joints. Therefore, taking the elasticity into account adds a lot of complexity as all the additional sensor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,061 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2017

This paper is concerned with model-based robust observer designs for state observation and its application for unknown input reconstruction. Firstly, a sliding mode observer (SMO), which provides exponential convergence of estimation error, is design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,063 Views
24 Pages

We have considered the problem of secure communication by means of chaotic carrier communication channels. Data protection is provided if the signal in the communication channel looks like a stochastic or noisy one, i.e., by the steganography propert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,944 Views
18 Pages

UKF-Based Observer Design for the Electric Brake Booster in Situations of Disturbance

  • Mingming Mei,
  • Shuo Cheng,
  • Liang Li,
  • Hongyuan Mu and
  • Yuxuan Pei

22 February 2023

The motor-driven electric brake booster (E-Booster) can replace the traditional vacuum booster to realize the braking power assistance and active braking. Independent of extra sensors, this paper proposes a full-state observer for E-Booster based on...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,803 Views
16 Pages

25 January 2016

A nonlinear reduced-order state observer is applied to estimate the degree of polymerization in a series of polycondensation reactors. The finishing stage of polyethylene terephthalate synthesis is considered in this work. This process has a special...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,227 Views
16 Pages

A Fractional High-Gain Nonlinear Observer Design—Application for Rivers Environmental Monitoring Model

  • Abraham Efraim Rodriguez-Mata,
  • Yaneth Bustos-Terrones,
  • Victor Gonzalez-Huitrón,
  • Pablo Antonio Lopéz-Peréz,
  • Omar Hernández-González and
  • Leonel Ernesto Amabilis-Sosa

The deterioration of current environmental water sources has led to the need to find ways to monitor water quality conditions. In this paper, we propose the use of Streeter–Phelps contaminant distribution models and state estimation techniques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,845 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2023

In this paper, the problem of the fractional-order linear systems’ simultaneous fault detection and reliable control (SFDC) in the finite frequency domain is investigated. A dynamic observer aimed at detecting faults is designed, which also gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,372 Views
16 Pages

This paper investigates the state estimation problem for nonlinear cyber–physical systems (CPSs). To conserve system resources, we propose a novel hybrid dynamic event-triggered mechanism (ETM) that prevents the occurrence of Zeno behavior. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,411 Views
20 Pages

4 December 2020

This paper presents a versatile approach to the synthesis and design of a bond graph model and a Kalman filter observer for an industrial back-support exoskeleton. Actually, the main purpose of developing a bond graph model is to investigate and unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,570 Views
13 Pages

11 November 2021

The application of autoencoders in combination with Dynamic Mode Decomposition for control (DMDc) and reduced order observer design as well as Kalman Filter design is discussed for low order state reconstruction of a class of scalar linear diffusion-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,578 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2019

In permanent magnet machines, the cogging torque caused by reluctance variations in the air gap may degrade the speed control performance in low speed and will undoubtedly limit its operational range. In order to reduce the cogging torque, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,568 Views
15 Pages

6 February 2021

A theme that become common knowledge of the literature is the difficulty of developing a mechanism that is compatible with individual incentives that simultaneously result in efficient decisions that maximize the total reward. In this paper, we sugge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,309 Views
20 Pages

In this paper, a fault estimation technique is proposed for discrete-time nonlinear interconnected systems with uncertain interconnections. To achieve the fault estimation, the decentralized fuzzy observer is adopted based on the Takagi–Sugeno...

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