Full-order and reduced-order observers for one-sided Lipschitz nonlinear systems using Riccati equations

This paper aims to design full-order and reduced-order observers for one-sided Lipschitz nonlinear systems. The system under consideration is an extension of its known Lipschitz counterpart and possesses inherent advantages with respect to conservativeness. For such system, we first develop a novel Riccati equation approach to design a full-order observer, for which rigorous mathematical analysis is performed. Consequently, we show that the conditions under which a full-order observer exists also guarantee the existence of a reduced-order observer. A design method for the reduced-order observer that is dependent on the solution of the Riccati equation is then presented. The proposed conditions are easily and numerically tractable via standard numerical software. Furthermore, it is theoretically proven that the obtained conditions are less conservative than some existing ones in recent literature. The effectiveness of the proposed observers is illustrated via a simulative example. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.