2243110 – Estimator and Observer Design

State feedback control relies on the availability of the full state vector, which is in general not available from measurements. Moreover, determining the states (or parameters) of a dynamical system is of interest on its own as this allows to obtain insights into the system dynamics or to estimate quantities that are not or hardly measurable. The lecture addresses basic concepts of estimation methods and the design of optimal state observers for linear and nonlinear dynamical systems both in a continuous and a discrete time setting.