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The problem of interval observer design is studied for a class of linear impulsive systems. Ranged and minimum dwell-time constraints are considered under detectability assumption. The first contribution of this paper lies in designing interval observers for linear impulsive systems under ranged and minimum dwelltime constraints, and investigating positivity of the estimation error dynamics in addition to stability. Several observers are designed oriented on different conditions of positivity and stability for estimation error dynamics. The boundedness of the estimation error (input-to-state stability property) and the observer stability conditions are stated as infinite-dimensional linear programming problems. Next, an output stabilizing feedback design problem is discussed, where the stability is checked using linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Efficiency of the proposed approach is demonstrated by computer simulations for a commercial electric vehicle equipped with a low power range extender fuel cell, a bouncing ball, an academic linear impulsive system and for Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) and Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC) of a power split device with clutch for heavy-duty military vehicles.

This paper focuses on designing a state estimator for a discrete-time SEIR epidemic model of an influenzalike illness. It is assumed that only sets of admissible values are known for the model's disturbances, uncertainties and parameters, except for the time-varying transmission rate from the "susceptible" to the "exposed" stage, whose bounding values are unavailable. An interval observer is designed to estimate the set of possible values of the state, and a sufficient condition guaranteeing the asymptotic stability of the proposed estimator is formulated in terms of a linear matrix inequality. The performance of the proposed approach is demonstrated by numerical simulations.