To cite this version:Abdelkader Akhenak, Mohammed Chadli, José Ragot, Didier Maquin. Design of sliding mode unknown input observer for uncertain Takagi-Sugeno model. P. Antsaklis K. Valavanis Abstract-This paper addresses the analysis and design of a sliding mode observer on the basis of a Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) model subject both to unknown inputs and uncertainties. The main contribution of the paper is the development of a robust observer with respect to the uncertainties as well as the synthesis of sufficient stability conditions of this observer. The stabilization of the observer is performed by the search of suitable Lyapunov matrices. It is shown how to determine the gains of the local observers, these gains being solutions of a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMI). The validity of the proposed methodology is illustrated by an academic example.
I. INTRODUCTIONState estimation of linear time-invariant dynamical system driven by both known and unknown inputs has been the subject of many research works [1], [2], [3]. Indeed, in practice, there are many situations where some of the inputs to the system are inaccessible. The recourse to the use of an unknown input observer is then necessary in order to be able to estimate the state of the considered system. This state estimate can be useful either for designing a control law and/or for supervision task. Indeed, in the context of instrument fault detection and isolation, most actuator failures can be generally modelled as unknown inputs to the system [2].In parallel, sliding mode observers (SMO) have received large attention since it offers robustness properties with regard uncertainties [4], [5], [6]. Using an additive nonlinear discontinuous term, SMO constraints the trajectory of the estimation error to remain on a specific surface after finite time such that error is completely insensitive to the disturbances. This interesting property has been utilized either for state estimation [7], [8], [9] and fault detection and isolation [10].All that relates to the linear models was largely developed in the literature. However, this assumption of linearity is checked only in a limited vicinity of a particular operating point. The T-S model approach can apprehend the nonlinear behaviour of a system, while keeping the simplicity of the linear models.Indeed, the real physical systems are often nonlinear. As it is delicate to synthesize an observer for an unspecified nonlinear system, it is preferable to represent this system with a T-S model. The idea of the T-S model