STATE ESTIMATION FOR A CLASS OF FRACTIONAL-ORDER UNCERTAIN NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

The robust state estimation problem for a class of fractional-order uncertain non- linear systems is investigated in this paper. The class of fractional-order uncertain nonlinear systems is more general than the existing one in the literature. For the first time, a method based on a new fractional-order state observer is proposed to give robust state estimation of the fractional-order uncertain nonlinear systems. A new condition for the existence of the fractional-order observer in terms of an optimization problem is proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through two examples.