Robust estimation of continuous nonlinear plants with discrete measurements

H Hernández, J Alvarez - Journal of Process Control, 2003 - Elsevier
In this work the problem of designing a state estimator for completely or partially observable
continuous nonlinear plants with discrete measurements is addressed. The combination of a …

Nonlinear state estimation with robust convergence

J Alvarez - Journal of Process Control, 2000 - Elsevier
The problem of designing a dynamic measurement processor for the on-line estimation of
the state of a multi-input multi-output nonlinear plant is addressed. The plant can be either …

Robust dynamic state estimation of nonlinear plants

J Alvarez, T López - AICHE journal, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
An on‐line state‐estimation design for multiinput multioutput nonlinear plants, either
observable or detectable, is presented. The design considers a stage of analysis, in which …

A robust state estimator design for nonlinear plants

J Alvarez - Proceedings of the 1997 American Control …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of designing an online estimator to infer the state of observable or detectable
multi-input multi-output nonlinear plants with exogenous inputs is addressed. Sufficient …

Nonlinear stochastic modeling to improve state estimation in process monitoring and control

FV Lima, JB Rawlings - AIChE journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
State estimation from plant measurements plays an important role in advanced monitoring
and control technologies, especially for chemical processes with nonlinear dynamics and …

[HTML][HTML] Observability analysis and model formulation for nonlinear state estimation

NPG Salau, JO Trierweiler, AR Secchi - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2014 - Elsevier
A suitable design of state estimators for advanced control requires a detailed and
representative mathematical model for capturing the nonlinear process behavior. The …

On the effect of the estimation structure in the functioning of a nonlinear copolymer reactor estimator

T López, J Alvarez - Journal of Process Control, 2004 - Elsevier
In this work, the effect of the estimation structure on the performance and robustness
characteristics of a geometric nonlinear estimator is studied for free-radical continuous …

On-line parameter estimation in a continuous polymerization process

A Sirohi, KY Choi - Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 1996 - ACS Publications
A large number of high activity catalysts are used to produce different grades of polymers in
a continuous olefin polymerization reactor. Often the transition from one grade to another is …

Application of MHE to large-scale nonlinear processes with delayed lab measurements

L Ji, JB Rawlings - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The paper addresses nonlinear estimation problems on nonlinear processes containing
several lab measurements sampled slowly and with long delay, which is the usual case in …

Multirate nonlinear state estimation with application to a polymerization reactor

S Tatiraju, M Soroush, BA Ogunnaike - AIChE Journal, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
A method of multirate nonlinear state observer design, which can use directly a nonlinear
process model in the observer design without any linear approximation, is presented. The …