An algebraic approach to design observers for delay-independent stability of systems with single output delay

Abstract

This paper presents an algebraic approach to design the control law of a LTI observer used to stabilize a LTI plant with an output delay. Different than the existing work, we use the observer gains to influence the plant stability. This becomes possible simply by removing the delay terms from the observer part. Given the plant controller gains, our approach can find the parametric regions with respect to the observer controller gains so that gains selected from these regions make the combined plant-observer system asymptotically stable independent of the amount of delay in the plant. An example with simulations is provided to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed observer design.