Distributed estimation of nonlinear systems
In a classical distributed framework, we present a novel distributed observer for genuinely nonlinear
continuous-time plants. A network of sensors monitors a multiple-outputs plant. Each sensor measures
only a portion of the plant’s outputs, and the sensing capability is different from sensor to sensor.
The assumption of strongly connected digraph on the underlying sensor network ensures robustness
and direct communication paths between nodes. Moreover, incremental homogeneity assumptions