Linearization by output injection and nonlinear observers

doi:10.1016/0167-6911(83)90037-3

Systems & Control Letters

Volume 3, Issue 1, June 1983, Pages 47-52

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Abstract

Observers can easily be constructed for those nonlinear systems which can be transformed into a linear system by change of state variables and output injection. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such a transformation are given.

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Linearization by output injection and nonlinear observers

Abstract

Syst. Control Lett.

Oeuvres

The formal linearization of a semisimple Lie algebra of vector fields about a singular point

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.

Remarks on a paper of Hermann

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.

Linearization of analytic vector fields in the transitive case

J. Differential Equations