New results on observer-based robust preview tracking control for Lipschitz nonlinear systems

In this article, the observer-based robust preview tracking control problem is revisited for discrete-time Lipschitz nonlinear systems. The proposed observer-based preview control scheme is composed of the integral control action, the observer-based state feedback control action, and the preview feedforward action of the reference signal. Sufficient design condition of controller and observer gains, which are able to ensure the simultaneously convergence of both the estimation error and the tracking error toward zero, is established in terms of linear matrix inequality by applying the Lyapunov function approach and several mathematical techniques. Compared with the existing result, the system model is more general, which could describe a larger range of practical processes. The observer-based preview controller design is simplified by computing the gain matrices of both observer and tracking controller simultaneously by only one-step linear matrix inequality procedure. Robustness against external disturbance is analyzed via the H_∞ performance criterion to attenuate its effect on the performance signal. Finally, two numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the suggested controller.