Nonlinear Dynamic Observer Design for Uncertain Vehicle Systems With Disturbances

This paper investigates the dynamic observer (DO) design problem for a class of disturbed Lipschitz nonlinear vehicle systems with uncertainties, where the uncertainties are assumed to be in both system matrix and input matrix. The proposed DO has a unified form and the popularly used proportional observer and proportional integral observer can be considered as the particular cases of the proposed DO. Based on the algebraic constraints, the observer design issue is transformed into the asymptotically stability analysis problem. The sufficient criterion of the DO design is derived in terms of linear matrix equality (LMI), by constructing a Lyapunov function to guarantee the H-infinity performance. A numerical example is used to illustrate the performance of the proposed DO.