Observers as Internal Models for Remote Tracking via Encoded Information

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a servomechanism problem in which the command and control functions are distributed in space, and hence the system consists of different components linked by a communication channel of finite capacity. The desired control goal is achieved by designing appropriate encoders, decoders and internal models of the exogenous signals. As an application, we describe a how the output of a system can be forced to track a reference signal generated by a remotely located nonlinear oscillator.

Keywords: Nonlinear tracking, internal model, encoding, remote control.