Convergence of full-order observers for the slow states of a singularly perturbed system (Part II: Applications)

Abstract

Many natural and engineered systems exhibit a singularly perturbed structure where different time scales inherently lead to difficulties in the design of observers for the system. In our related work [1], we have shown that, under appropriate assumptions, an observer designed for the slow part of the system can be applied and results in semi-global practical asymptotical (SPA) stability of the estimation error. In this paper, we show that assumptions from [1] hold for two classes of plants and nonlinear observers. In fact, we show that the provided framework in [1] covers current results in the literature and also other cases that are not covered by existing results. Hence, we demonstrate that we generalise existing results in the literature.