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A dynamical interpretation of strong observability and detectability concepts for nonlinear systems with unknown
Jaime A Moreno1, Edmundo Rocha-Cózatl, Alain Vande Wouwer
1Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, Mexico, D.F., Mexico, JMorenoP@ii.unam.mx.
Abstract:
Determination of the observability/detectability properties of a nonlinear system is fundamental to assess the possibility of constructing observers and the properties that can be assigned to them, as e.g., the assignability of the convergence rate. For linear systems this task can be solved by well-known techniques, for the case without perturbations as much as for the perturbed case. However, for nonlinear systems this study is usually a very hard task, in particular, when unknown inputs and/or perturbations are present. In this paper a general method to study these properties will be described, and its capabilities and feasibility will be assessed by means of a few case studies related to the culture of phytoplankton in the chemostat.
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