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State estimation for the Newton's cradle: A mechanism that is unobservable in absence of impacts

✍ Scribed by L. Menini; A. Tornambé


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
370 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0893-9659

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✦ Synopsis


we consider a simplified Newton's cradle, which would be unobservable if the nonsmooth impacts between the spheres were ignored. Nevertheless, under the assumption that there is an infinite sequence of nonsmooth impacts, it is possible to design an obeexver that is able to esymp totically estimate all the nonmeasurable state variables, including those that would be unobservable in absence of impacts.