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We address the problem of designing simultaneous input and state interval observers for Lipschitz continuous nonlinear systems with rank-deficient feedthrough, unknown inputs and bounded noise signals. Benefiting from the existence of nonlinear decomposition functions and affine abstractions, our proposed observer recursively computes the maximal and minimal elements of the estimate intervals that are proven to contain the true states and unknown inputs. Moreover, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and sufficient conditions for the stability (i.e., uniform boundedness of the sequence of estimate interval widths) of the designed observer, and show that the input interval estimates are tight, given the state intervals and decomposition functions.
A simultaneous input and state interval observer is presented for Lipschitz continuous nonlinear systems with unknown inputs and bounded noise signals for the case when the direct feedthrough matrix has full column rank. The observer leverages the existence of bounding decomposition functions for mixed monotone mappings to recursively compute the maximal and minimal elements of the estimate intervals that are compatible with output/measurement signals, and are proven to contain the true state and unknown input. Furthermore, we derive a Lipschitz-like property for decomposition functions, which provides several sufficient conditions for stability of the designed observer and boundedness of the sequence of estimate interval widths. Finally, the effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated using an illustrative example.
In this paper, we study the problem of designing a simultaneous mode, input, and state set-valued observer for a class of hidden mode switched nonlinear systems with bounded-norm noise and unknown input signals, where the hidden mode and unknown inputs can represent fault or attack models and exogenous fault/disturbance or adversarial signals, respectively. The proposed multiple-model design has three constituents: (i) a bank of mode-matched set-valued observers, (ii) a mode observer, and (iii) a global fusion observer. The mode-matched observers recursively find the sets of compatible states and unknown inputs conditioned on the mode being the true mode, while the mode observer eliminates incompatible modes by leveraging a residual-based criterion. Then, the global fusion observer outputs the estimated sets of states and unknown inputs by taking the union of the mode-matched set-valued estimates over all compatible modes. Moreover, sufficient conditions to guarantee the elimination of all false modes (i.e., mode-detectability) are provided and the effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated and compared with existing approaches using an illustrative example.
We study the problem of designing interval-valued observers that simultaneously estimate the system state and learn an unknown dynamic model for partially unknown nonlinear systems with dynamic unknown inputs and bounded noise signals. Leveraging affine abstraction methods and the existence of nonlinear decomposition functions, as well as applying our previously developed data-driven function over-approximation/abstraction approach to over-estimate the unknown dynamic model, our proposed observer recursively computes the maximal and minimal elements of the estimate intervals that are proven to contain the true augmented states. Then, using observed output/measurement signals, the observer iteratively shrinks the intervals by eliminating estimates that are not compatible with the measurements. Finally, given new interval estimates, the observer updates the over-approximation of the unknown model dynamics. Moreover, we provide sufficient conditions for uniform boundedness of the sequence of estimate interval widths, i.e., stability of the designed observer, in the form of tractable (mixed-)integer programs with finitely countable feasible sets.
In this paper, we propose fixed-order set-valued (in the form of l2-norm hyperballs) observers for some classes of nonlinear bounded-error dynamical systems with unknown input signals that simultaneously find bounded hyperballs of states and unknown inputs that include the true states and inputs. Necessary and sufficient conditions in the form of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) for the stability (in the sense of quadratic stability) of the proposed observers are derived for ($mathcal{M},gamma$)- Quadratically Constrained (($mathcal{M},gamma$)-QC) systems, which includes several classes of nonlinear systems: (I) Lipschitz continuous, (II) ($mathcal{A},gamma$)-QC* and (III) Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems. This new quadratic constraint property is at least as general as the incremental quadratic constraint property for nonlinear systems and is proven in the paper to embody a broad range of nonlinearities. In addition, we design the optimal $mathcal{H}_{infty}$ observer among those that satisfy the quadratic stability conditions and show that the design results in Uniformly Bounded-Input Bounded-State (UBIBS) estimate radii/error dynamics and uniformly bounded sequences of the estimate radii. Furthermore, we provide closed-form upper bound sequences for the estimate radii and sufficient condition for their convergence to steady state. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed set-valued observers is demonstrated through illustrative examples, where we compare the performance of our observers with some existing observers.
We address the problem of robust state reconstruction for discrete-time nonlinear systems when the actuators and sensors are injected with (potentially unbounded) attack signals. Exploiting redundancy in sensors and actuators and using a bank of unknown input observers (UIOs), we propose an observer-based estimator capable of providing asymptotic estimates of the system state and attack signals under the condition that the numbers of sensors and actuators under attack are sufficiently small. Using the proposed estimator, we provide methods for isolating the compromised actuators and sensors. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods.