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Observers are dynamical systems which process the input and output signals of a given dynamical system and deliver an online estimate of the internal state of the given system which asymptotically converges to the exact value of the state. For linear, finite-dimensional, time-invariant systems, observers can be designed provided a weak observability property, known as detectability, holds.
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Astolfi, A., Antsaklis, P.J. (2015). Observers in Linear Systems Theory. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5058-9_197
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