title: Application of partial observability for analysis and design of synchronized systems.
abstract: Synchronization in identical drive-response systems is a problem that can be cast in an observer design framework. In this paper we extend this approach by studying the analysis/design of partial synchronization by means of observer theory. In doing so, we introduce the concept of partial observer--an observer to reconstruct a part of the system state vector. It is also shown how the observability condition can be utilized to analyze the dynamics in an array of coupled identical systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Santoboni
authors.forename: Alexander Yu
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Pogromsky
authors.forename: Henk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nijmeijer
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013997:Time Factors