Reservoir observers: Model-free inference of unmeasured variables in chaotic systems

• Published in: Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) Vol. 27; no. 4; p. 041102
• Main Authors: Lu, Zhixin, Pathak, Jaideep, Hunt, Brian, Girvan, Michelle, Brockett, Roger, Ott, Edward
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.04.2017

Deducing the state of a dynamical system as a function of time from a limited number of concurrent system state measurements is an important problem of great practical utility. A scheme that accomplishes this is called an "observer." We consider the case in which a model of the system is u...