Title : 
An existence theorem for observers of bilinear systems
         
        
            Author : 
Grasselli, Osvaldo M. ; Isidori, Alberto
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Centro di Studio dei Sistemi di Controllo e Calculo Automatici del CNR, Rome, Italy
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
12/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Under suitable "uniformity" assumptions, the existence of nonlinear state observers with exponentially decaying error for bilinear systems is proved to be equivalent to that of observers whose corresponding error dynamics is linear with respect to the error.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Bilinear systems; Observers, nonlinear systems; Automatic control; Control systems; Convergence; Feedback control; Linear systems; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear systems; Observers; State estimation;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TAC.1981.1102814