CRONE Observer of Nonlinear SISO Systems
CRONE control, robust control methodology based on fractional differentiation, is applied to state observer design. State observation can indeed be viewed as a regulation problem given that the goal of a state observer is to cancel the observation error in spite of measurement noise, disturbances and plant perturbations. This conclusion has been used recently to define a new class of state observers known in the literature as “dynamic observers” or “input-output observer”. It is based on the observation error dynamic feedback. In this paper, this idea is used to define the CRONE observer design methodology for nonlinear SISO systems. As for CRONE control, fractional differentiation in the definition of an equivalent open loop transfer function permits the reduction of the number of parameters to be optimised.