On the combination of nonlinear contracting observers and UGES controllers for output feedback

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 4933-4939

  Jouffroy, Jérôme ^a   Fossen, Thor I ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ERROR CORRECTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OBSERVABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRAJECTORIES;

FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR CONTRACTING OBSERVERS; TAYLOR'S THEORM; UNIFORM GLOBAL EXPONENTIAL STABILITY (UGES);

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 14544268200     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2004.1429588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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