15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
NUMERICAL OBSERVABILITY IN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: AN APPROACH BY INTERVAL NUMBERS
Héctor Valdés-González Jean-Marie Flaus
Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble, LAG/ENSIEG
Rue de la Houille Blanche BP 46,
38402 Saint Martin d’Hères Cedex, France

This work presents another concept of observability in nonlinear systems, when the states of these types of models are described using a representation by interval numbers. This approach is an extension of classical concepts of nonlinear observability, called ε-observability and is based on a notion of the neighborhood of a state with a given precision of epsilon. Our proposal includes the notion of an indistinguishable trajectory by intervals applied to the IMHSE method, which is the basic concept used to construct the notions of observability that will be presented.
Keywords: Intervals, Observability, Nonlinear models, Interval Trajectories
Session slot T-Mo-A21: System Engineering, Management and Control Education/Area code 7d : Control of Biotechnological Processes