An Extended Robust H infinity Filter for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Constraints

In this paper, a robust filter is proposed to effectively estimate the system states in the case where system model uncertainties as well as disturbances are present. The proposed robust filter is constructed based on the linear approximation methods for a general nonlinear uncertain system with an integral quadratic constraint. We also derive the important characteristic of the proposed filter, a modified H∞ performance index. Analysis results show that the proposed filter has robustness against disturbances such as process and measurement noises, and against parameter uncertainties. Simulation results show that the proposed filter effectively improves the performance.