Observers for Linear Systems

My aim, in writing this monograph, has been to remedy this omission by presenting a comprehensive and unified theory of observers for continuous-time and discrete -time linear systems. The book is intended for post-graduate students and researchers specializing in control systems, now a core subject in a number of disciplines. Forming, as it does, a self-contained volume it should also be of service to control engineers primarily interested in applications, and to mathematicians with some exposure to control problems.

Post-graduate students and researchers specializing in control systems, and engineers.

Preface. Acknowledgements. Elementary system and observer theory. Minimal-order state observers. Linear state function observers. Dynamical observer-based controllers. Minimum-time state reconstruction of discrete systems. Observers and linear least-squares estimation for stochastic systems. Adaptive observers. Observer-based compensation in the frequency-domain. Observer-based compensation for polynomial matrix system models. Geometric theory of observers. Further study. References. Appendix A and B. Author index. Subject index.