Abstract
This paper discusses a canonical form of a deadbeat state observer for a discrete-time, linear, time-invariant system. A general form of the deadbeat state observer which shows the freedom of design has been obtained; however the design parameters have redundancy. To avoid the redundancy, a canonical form which is expressed by the linear combination of independent design parameters is derived for some subsets of the general form. Finally, illustrative examples are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed procedure.
