Abstract. Singular systems, defined as dynamical systems subject to algebraic constraints, arise in many engineering disciplines. The output regulation problem for singular nonlinear systems has been studied recently for the ideal case where the mathematical model is exactly known. This paper will consider the robust output regulation problem for a class of singular nonlinear systems which contain uncertain parameters. We will establish the conditions for the solvability of the problem, thus extending the existing results from normal nonlinear systems to singular nonlinear systems.1. Introduction. Singular systems arise in many areas of engineering including electrical networks, power system, aerospace engineering and chemical processing.Since the late 1970s singular systems have attracted the attention of many researchers. Several books and survey papers dealing with these systems have addressed the issues of solvability, controllability and observability, pole assignment, the elimination of impulsive behavior, and so on [6], [20], [8], [3]. This paper will consider the robust output regulation problem for a class of singular nonlinear systems to be described in Section 2. Briefly, the output regulation problem aims to design control laws for a plant so that the output of the closed-loop system is able to asymptotically track a class of reference inputs and reject a class of disturbances. Both the disturbance and reference are generated by an autonomous differential equation called exosystem. When the controller is also required to tolerate certain plant uncertainty, the problem is called a robust output regulation problem. For linear systems, this problem was thoroughly studied for the normal systems in the 1970s in [10], [11] among others. A salient outcome of these research activities is the internal model principle which is the extension of the well known PID control. The problem was also investigated for linear singular systems in 1980's [8]. Recently, a more clear-cut solution of this problem for linear singular systems was obtained in [21]. For nonlinear systems, the same problem was first treated for normal systems. The special case in which the exogenous signals are constant was studied in [11], [16]. The general case with time varying exogenous signals was studied in [19] without considering the parameter uncertainty. Subsequently, the robust version of the same problem was pursued in [13], [14], [12], [2]. More recently, the output regulation problem for singular nonlinear systems was formulated and solved in [18]. The objective of this paper is to extendthe research initiated in [18] by considering the plant uncertainty.