Global practical tracking of a class of nonlinear systems using linear sampled-data control.

This paper considers the problem of global practical tracking via sampled-data control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. Under a lower triangular linear growth condition, a sampled-data state feedback controller is first constructed such that the states are globally bounded and the error between the system output and the reference signal will be rendered smaller than a given tolerance. When only the output of the system is measurable, a sampled-data output feedback controller, whose observer and control law are both linear, is constructed to solve the global practical tracking problem. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]