The combined optimal control law and observer bear some relationship to the well known Kalman filter separation principle results. However, the observer would typically use a much smaller number of Pseudo state variables for feedback and both the control and observer gains will in general be dynamic. Furthermore, there are in fact two separation principle results depending upon the order in which either the control or filtering problems are solved. The total controllers obtained by both results are of course identical and the two theorems also coincide in the special case when Pseudo states are equal to real state variables.
Other situations where the Pseudo state system description may be helpful will be considered briefly and an example of the type of results obtained will be provided.
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