“…where x k ∈ R n is the state vector, u k ∈ R m is the input vector, and d k ∈ R q is the unknown input vector, y k ∈ R o is the output vector; A(x k ), B(y k ), C(x k ), D(y k ), and E(y k ) are matrix functions whose entries are smooth and bounded in a region Ω x ⊂ R n including the origin. is work only considers the particular case when E(•) is full rank (the case when descriptor matrix is not invertible has been recently treated in [50,51], this case is also referred as differential-algebraicequation (DAE) systems or singular ones [52], and it is out of the scope of this work. Fault diagnosis schemes for this type of systems have been addressed in [53]) for x k ∈ Ω x ; that is, from (1), it is always possible to obtain a standard state-space representation:…”