Sampled-data estimator for nonlinear systems with uncertainties and arbitrarily fast rate of convergence.

We study a class of continuous-time nonlinear systems with discrete measurements, model uncertainty, and sensor noise. We provide an estimator of the state for which the observation error enjoys a variant of the exponential input-to-state stability property with respect to the model uncertainty and sensor noise. A valuable novel feature is that the overshoot term in this stability estimate only involves a recent history of uncertainty values. Also, the rate of exponential convergence can be made arbitrarily large by reducing the supremum of the sampling intervals. Our proof uses a recently developed trajectory based approach. We illustrate our work using a model for a pendulum whose suspension point is subjected to an unknown time-varying bounded horizontal oscillation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]