15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A NEW SEPARATION RESULT FOR EULER-LAGRANGE-LIKE SYSTEMS
Gildas Besançon* Stefano Battilotti** Leonardo Lanari**
* Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble
ENSIEG BP 46 - 38402 Saint-Martin d’Hères, France.
Gildas.Besancon@inpg.fr
** Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
Univ. La Sapienza, via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy.
{stefbatt, lanari}@dis.uniroma1.it

This paper presents a separation result for some global stabilization via output feedback of a class of quadratic-like nonlinear systems, under the form of some “stabilizability by state feedback” on the one hand, and “unboundedness observability” on the other hand. They allow to design, for any domain of output initial condition, a dynamic output feedback controller achieving global stability. As an example, these conditions are shown to be satisfied by so-called “Euler-Lagrange” systems, for which a tracking output feedback control law is thus proposed.
Keywords: Separation, Unboundedness observability, Output feedback, Global stability, Euler-Lagrange systems, Tracking control
Session slot T-Mo-M08: Analysis of Nonlinear Systems/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems