An adaptive observer based output feedback prescribed‐time control of a class of nonlinear systems with unknown parameters

Summary In this paper, an adaptive observer based output feedback prescribed‐time control is designed for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown parameters. According to the characteristics of the nonlinear systems, a novel adaptive observer is first designed. Then by imposing parametric Lyapunov equations, a time‐varying high‐gain observer based output feedback adaptive controller is constructed, by which, it is proven that the states of both the observer and the original system can be driven to zero within any prescribed time. Moreover, the control signal is proven uniformly bounded by a scalar. Two numerical examples are illustrated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.