15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
SEPARATION PRINCIPLE FOR A CLASS OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS
Aleksei E. Golubev* Alexander P. Krishchenko*Sergei B. Tkachev*
* Bauman Moscow State Technical University,
ul. 2-aja Baumanskaja, 5, 107005, Russia, Moscow,
e-mail: mathmod@bmstu.ru

We address the problem of global output feedback stabilization for a class of nonlinear affine systems. For affine systems that admit an exponentially stable observer it is shown that a global separation principle holds. Our stabilization results are also presented for general nonlinear systems. An output feedback controller is designed for a flexible one-link robot arm as an illustrative example.
Keywords: Nonlinear systems, Separation, Output feedback stabilization
Session slot T-We-A21: Posters of Nonlinear Systems/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems