The ignorant observer

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

Expressing Prior Ignorance of a Probability Parameter

If p is an unknown probability parameter, prior ignorance of its value is appropriately expressed by the prior probability density distribution ) 1 ( 1 ) ( p p p f − ∝ . That is the only distribution that remains invariant under transformations that convert the original inference problem into another that should look identical to a truly ignorant observer. This invariance principle for specifyi...

The Mental Functions of the Brain

In many ways this is an able book, and affords abundant food for thought and reflection. Some portions of the work are extremely interesting, especially those dealing with the early history of phrenology, about which the medical profession is undoubtedly too ignorant. The author has done good service in pointing out the debt we are under to Gall, the pioneer in the modern study of the anatomy a...

Development of a Robust Observer for General Form Nonlinear System: Theory, Design and Implementation

The problem of observer design for nonlinear systems has got great attention in the recent literature. The nonlinear observer has been a topic of interest in control theory. In this research, a modified robust sliding-mode observer (SMO) is designed to accurately estimate the state variables of nonlinear systems in the presence of disturbances and model uncertainties. The observer has a simple ...

A Novel Qualitative State Observer

The state estimation of a quantized system (Q.S.) is a challenging problem for designing feedback control and model-based fault diagnosis algorithms. The core of a Q.S. is a continuous variable system whose inputs and outputs are represented by their corresponding quantized values. This paper concerns with state estimation of a Q.S. by a qualitative observer. The presented observer in this pape...