Different notions of observability are compared for systems defined by polynomial difference equations. The main result states that, for systems having the standard property of (multiple-experiment initial-state) observability, the response to a generic input sequence is sufficient for final-state determination. Some remarks are made on results for nonpolynomial and/or continuous-time systems. An identifiability result is derived from the above.
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Eduardo D. Sontag (1979) studied this question.
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