New directions in nonlinear observer design ; [a collection of contributions presented at a international workshop held from June 24-26, 1999, in Geiranger Fjord, Norway

The past decade has witnessed an increasing interest in observers for nonlinear systems. This subject is relevant in different contexts such as synchronization of complex dynamical systems, fault detection and isolation, and output feedback control. This book contains the contributions that are to be presented at the workshop "New Directions in Nonlinear Observer Design", to be held from June 24-26, 1999, in Geiranger Fjord, Norway. The workshop has been organised by Olav Egeland, Thor I. Fossen and Henk Nijmeijer; it will include participants from Africa, Asia, Europe and USA and it will focus on recent developments in the above mentioned areas. The contributions form a good review of present achievements and challenges in nonlinear observer design. The workshop is supported by the Strategic University Program on Marine Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and ABB. Contributors......Page 6 Contents......Page 9 A Viewpoint on Observability and Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems......Page 18 Model-Based Observers for Tire/Road Contact Friction Prediction......Page 38 Observer Design for Nonlinear Oscillatory Systems......Page 58 Transformation to State Atfine System and Observer Design......Page 74 On Existence of Extended Observers for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems......Page 87 Stability Analysis and Observer Design for Nonlinear Diffusion Processes......Page 107 Nonlinear Passive Observer Design for Ships with Adaptive Wave Filtering......Page 126 Nonlinear Observer Design for Integration of DGPS and INS......Page 148 Variants of Nonlinear Normal Form Observer Design......Page 173 Separation Results for Semiglobal Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems via Measurement Feedback......Page 193 Observer-Controller Design for Global Tracking of Nonholonomic Systems......Page 217 A Separation Principle for a Class of Euler-Lagrange Systems......Page 239 High-Gain Observers in Nonlinear Feedback Control......Page 258 Output-Feedback Control of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems......Page 278 Output Feedback Control of Food-Chain Systems......Page 299 Output Feedback Tracking Control for Ships......Page 319 Dynamic UCO Controllers and Semiglobal Stabilization of Uncertain Nonminimum Phase Systems by Output Feedback......Page 343 Fault Detection Observer for a Class of Nonlinear Systems......Page 359 Nonlinear Observer for Signal and Parameter Fault Detection in Ship Propulsion Control......Page 380 Nonlinear Observers for Fault Detection and Isolation......Page 403 Application of Nonlinear Observers to Fault Detection and Isolation......Page 427 Innovation Generation for Bilinear Systems with Unknown Inputs......Page 448 Synchronization Through Extended Kalman Filtering......Page 469 Nonlinear Discrete-Time Observers for Synchronization Problems......Page 491 Chaos Synchronization......Page 511