Abstract-Unknown measurement delays usually degrade system performance, and even damage the system under output feedback control, which motivates us to develop an effective method to attenuate or offset the adverse effect from the measurement delays. In this paper, an augmented observer is proposed for discrete-time Lipschitz nonlinear systems subjected to unknown measurement delays, enabling a simultaneous estimation for system states and perturbed terms caused by the output delays. On the basis of the estimates, a sensor compensation technique is addressed to remove the influence from the measurement delays to the system performance. Furthermore, an integrated robust estimation and compensation technique is proposed to decouple constant piece-wise disturbances, attenuate other disturbances/noises, and offset the adverse effect caused by the measurement delays. The proposed methods are applied to a two-stage chemical reactor with delayed recycle, and an electro-mechanical servo system, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the present techniques.Index Terms-Discrete-time systems, measurement delays, nonlinear systems, observers, robustness, signal compensation.
I. INTRODUCTIONIPSCHITZ nonlinear systems have attracted continuous interest during the last decades, since many nonlinearities in engineering systems can be characterized, at least locally, as Lipschitz form. Fruitful results have been reported for a variety of research issues on Lipscthiz nonlinear systems such as stabilization and control [1][2][3], estimation and filtering [4,5], and fault diagnosis [6,7]. Meanwhile, time delays always exist in practical processes due to the distributed nature of the system, material transport, and communication lag, which may cause the system performance degradation, and even instability [8][9][10][11]. Therefore, research on nonlinear systems Manuscript received July 26, 2014; revised March 7, 2015; accepted March 27, 2015. Copyright © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to use this material for any other purposes must be obtained from the IEEE by sending a request to pubs-permission@ieee,org.The work is partially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (GRO/1117303 STP) and the sabbatical leave scheme at the E&E faculty in the University of Northumbria.Z. Gao is with the Faculty of Engineering and Environment (E&E), University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK (+441912437832; e-mail: zhiwei.gao@northumbria.ac.uk).subjected to delays has received much more attention. In [12], state and output feedback stabilization was discussed for Lipschitz nonlinear systems with delays. In [13], a distributed ∞ filter was proposed for a class of Markovian jump nonlinear time-delay systems over lossy sensor networks. By using linear matrix inequality technique, a robust observer was presented in [14] for nonlinear discrete-time systems with time-delays. In [15], an adaptive observer was addressed for Lipschitz nonlinear systems with time-varying de...