Second Order Sliding Mode Observer for Mechanical Systems with Coulomb Friction

*Jorge Davila and L. Fridman are with Department of Postgraduate Study, Engineering Faculty, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico D.F., Mexico, jadavila@servidor.unam.mx. lfridman@verona.fi-p.unam.mx; Arie Levant is with Applied Mathematics Dept., School of Mathematical Sciences,Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv. Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel, levant@post.tau.ac.il. This work was supported in part by the Grants CONACyT 43807 y PAPIIT 117103 In [1] an asymptotic observer for systems with Coulomb friction was designed based on the second-order sliding-mode but this observer required the proof of separation principle theorem.