This thesis work is realized in the Research Center in Automatic Control of Nancy (CRAN). It concerns the observation and control of nonlinear singular systems. Firstly, we were interested in the observer design and H infinity filtering for singular bilinear systems. In a second step, we studied the observers design for Lipschitz nonlinear singular systems. The last part of this work relates to the stabilization and observer based controller for a classe of singular nonlinear systems. The objective is to develop a simple and straightforward results which covers a large class of nonlinear systems. The main contribution of this thesis is in the H infinity observers design for nonlinear singular systems. It is based on the parametrization of the solution of the constrained generalized Sylvester equation. The second contribution relates to the design of stabilizing control and using the proposed observer to design an obsever based controller for nonlinear singular systems. Solutions of these problems are obtained by using Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) Formulation.
