Distributed Prescribed-Time Observer for Nonlinear Systems in Block-Triangular Form

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Main Authors: de Heij, Vincent, Niazi, M. Umar B., Johansson, Karl H., Ahmed, Saeed
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Published: 2025
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author de Heij, Vincent
Niazi, M. Umar B.
Johansson, Karl H.
Ahmed, Saeed
author_facet de Heij, Vincent
Niazi, M. Umar B.
Johansson, Karl H.
Ahmed, Saeed
contents This paper proposes a distributed prescribed-time observer for nonlinear systems representable in a block-triangular observable canonical form. Using a weighted average of neighbor estimates exchanged over a strongly connected digraph, each observer estimates the system state despite the limited observability of local sensor measurements. The proposed design guarantees that distributed state estimation errors converge to zero at a user-specified convergence time, irrespective of observers' initial conditions. To achieve this prescribed-time convergence, distributed observers implement time-varying local output injection gains that monotonically increase and approach infinity at the prescribed time. The theoretical convergence is rigorously proven and validated through numerical simulations, where some implementation issues due to increasing gains have also been clarified.
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spellingShingle Distributed Prescribed-Time Observer for Nonlinear Systems in Block-Triangular Form
de Heij, Vincent
Niazi, M. Umar B.
Johansson, Karl H.
Ahmed, Saeed
Systems and Control
This paper proposes a distributed prescribed-time observer for nonlinear systems representable in a block-triangular observable canonical form. Using a weighted average of neighbor estimates exchanged over a strongly connected digraph, each observer estimates the system state despite the limited observability of local sensor measurements. The proposed design guarantees that distributed state estimation errors converge to zero at a user-specified convergence time, irrespective of observers' initial conditions. To achieve this prescribed-time convergence, distributed observers implement time-varying local output injection gains that monotonically increase and approach infinity at the prescribed time. The theoretical convergence is rigorously proven and validated through numerical simulations, where some implementation issues due to increasing gains have also been clarified.
title Distributed Prescribed-Time Observer for Nonlinear Systems in Block-Triangular Form
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02669