Paper: Observation of bilinear systems with application to biological control

  • Authors:
  • Darrell Williamson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Systems and Control, School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

In this paper a system of bilinear equations is derived which under appropriate conditions model the microbial cellgrowth and product formation of various waste treatment and fermentation systems. Given the available measurements, the problem of obtaining an asymptotic estimate of the state of the system is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the observability of a general system of bilinear equations are also derived. As accurate biological sensors do not often exist the results are significant for the on-line control of these biological processes.