I.

Interval observer for discrete-time linear switched systems

In this part, we detail different steps to design an interval observer for discrete time
switched systems affected by disturbances and measurement noises which are assumed
unknown but, bounded with known bounds. Two approaches are presented. The first
one, which is restrictive, details the conditions ensuring the nonnegativity
(cooperativity) and the stability of estimations errors using a common Lyapunov
function and the nonnegativity (cooperativity) in the original coordinates. The second
approach is based on transformation of coordinates allows to relax restrictive
conditions of stability and nonnegativity of estimations errors.

II. Design of an interval observer for discrete time linear switched

systems under constrained switched signal
We explain different steps of design of an interval observer for discrete time switched
systems affected by disturbances and measurement noises. The design methodology is
based on the Input-to-State Stability (ISS). The gains are computed by
solving Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) formulated based on multiple quadratic
Lyapunov functions under average dwell time switching signals. To ensure the
nonnegativity of the estimation errors a change of coordinates is made.

III. A new interval observer design for discrete-time linear switched

systems (T-N-L method)
The design of interval observers requires an extra constraint of nonnegativity compared
with Luenberguer observers. To overcome the design difficulty, several methods based
on coordinate transformation are evoked in literature. Such methods have shown its
limitation. It is not often possible to synthesis simultaneous the coordinate
transformation matrix and the observer gain matrix to fulfill both the positivity property
and the stability of the estimation errors. A new interval observer structure is
introduced based on the introduction of new matrices to handle the design difficulty of
coordinate transformation. The interval observer gains are computed by solving Linear
Matrix Inequalities (LMI) based on:

1. A common Lyapunov function.

2. A multiple quadratic Lyapunov functions under average dwell time switching
signals.

IV. Comparative studies

To discuss the effectiveness of the presented methods A numerical
example is given

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