High-Gain-Observer-Based Predictive Output Feedback for Nonlinear Systems With Large Input-Delays

Abstract The predictor feedback has been demonstrated to be quite effective in large delay compensation. However, few researches in the field of predictor feedback for large delays focused on output feedback control (OFC). This paper develops the previous work to design high-gain-observer-based predictive output feedback for nonlinear systems with large delays. Two methods are employed for large delay compensation: the backstepping-based partial differential equation (PDE) method and the reduction-based ordinary differential equation (ODE) method. It appears that, for continuous-time control, the first method leads to simpler linear matrix inequality (LMI) conditions and deal with larger delays, whereas the second method is easily exploited for sampled-data implementation under continuous-time measurement. Lyapunov–Krasovskii method is presented to guarantee the exponential stability of the nonlinear systems under predictor-based controllers. Through a simulation example of pendulum, the proposed methods are demonstrated to be efficient when the input delays are too large for the system to be stabilized without a predictor.