Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

The problem of unknown input observer design is considered for coupled PDE/ODE systems subject to incremental sector bounded nonlinearities and unknown boundary inputs. Assuming available measurements at the boundary of the distributed domain, the synthesis of the unknown input observer is based on Lyapunov methods and recast in terms of some matrix inequalities. Numerical simulations support and confirm the theoretical findings, illustrating the robust estimation performances of the proposed nonlinear unknown input observer.