The objective of this study is the analysis of dynamic systems represented by a multimodel expression with variable parameters. Changes in these parameters are unknown but bounded. Since it is not possible to estimate these parameters over time, the simulation of such systems requires the consideration of all possible values taken by these parameters. More precisely, the goal is to determine, at any moment, the smallest set containing all the possible values of the state vector simultaneously compatible with the state equations and with a priori known bounds of the uncertain parameters. This set will be characterized by two trajectories corresponding to the lower and upper limits of the state at every moment.This characterization can be realized by a direct simulation of the system, given the bounds of its parameters. It can also be implemented with a Luenberger-type observer, fed with the system measurements.
KEYWORDSbounded uncertainties, interval observers, multimodel technique, uncertain systems
INTRODUCTIONAs widely known, one of the main difficulties in system simulation, control, or estimation is dealing with uncertainties. These uncertainties may affect the input or output signals of the system (eg, unknown input, disturbance, measurement noises, etc) as well as the system model itself (eg, nonmodeled dynamics, unknown parameter, etc). The uncertainties may also be of different natures: total lack of information (unknown value of a parameter) or partial knowledge (upper and lower bounds, statistical properties, etc). This paper deals with systems with uncertain parameters.Even a low magnitude change in some parameters may have a significant impact on the system behavior and, namely, on the system state trajectory. Uncertain parameters can be considered from two main points of view: the stochastic and the deterministic ones. In the first approach, the uncertain parameters are assumed to be the results of random process realizations. It then needs to choose the probability density functions and their parameters describing the system's uncertain parameters. In the deterministic approach, no statistical models of the parameters are assumed to be available, and only the upper and lower bounds of the parameter values are known. This approach, also known as the interval approach, is adopted in this paper.The search for trajectories, which are solutions of differential inclusions, 1 were the starting point of the large amount of works on stability, stabilization, and state estimation. In the latter topic, our communication follows the pioneering work of Gouzé et al, 2 which proposed the synthesis of the interval-type observer to reconstruct the system state 480 ;32:480-493. ICHALAL ET AL.
481from measurements of inputs and outputs. Since then, many results were published on designing observers adapted to nonlinear systems with uncertain but bounded parameters. [3][4][5][6] The model-based state estimation techniques in the context of bounded uncertainties can be classified into two categories. The first one is ba...