Adaptive sliding mode observers for sector‐bounded nonlinear systems
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Abstract
Summary This article introduces a novel sliding mode observer design for sector bounded nonlinear systems. The proposed observer can simultaneously estimate both states and unknown parameters in the presence of disturbances and measurement noise. The observer is developed by using a time‐averaged Lyapunov (TAL) functional to analyze the effect of noise (Gaussian) and to adequately reduce its effect on the system. The TAL averages the Lyapunov analysis over a small finite time interval, allowing for intuitive analysis of noises and disturbances acting on the system. The TAL is shown to satisfy all the requirements of a Lyapunov candidate function. The article focuses on the observer design for sector bounded nonlinear systems since several nonlinearities can be modeled using a sector bound. An optimization approach is also developed to provide a tight bound on the effect of the uncertainty on the estimated parameters. The conditions for the existence of the observer are presented in the form of linear matrix inequality (LMI), which can be explicitly solved offline using commercial LMI solvers. Furthermore, the LMI design is also extended to a specific case of a dissipative nonlinear system. The observer design has also been extended to the case where the input disturbance is correlated with the sensor noise.
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