Complements to full order observer design for linear systems with unknown inputs

This note completes the results obtained in [M. Darouach, M. Zasadzinski, S.J. Xu, Full-order observers for linear systems with unknown inputs, IEEE Trans. Automat. Control., AC-39 (3) (1994) 606-609]. It presents a full order observer for linear systems with unknown inputs in the state and in the measurement equations. It gives a more general approach for the observer's design than that presented in the above mentioned reference and it shows that all the obtained results are independent of the choice of the generalized inverses considered in the observer's design. Continuous- and discrete-time systems are considered. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.