- Based on the full state-controller theory, a new ob-server-controller for MAGLEV vehicles considering the guideway elasticity was proposed in early publi-cations in Germany and now realized in practice in China. It is expected to eliminate the phenomenon of the vehicle-guideway coupling vibration caused by the hypothesis of a rigid guideway, which usually happens in the current high-speed MAGLEV line, and reduce the over dependence of system stability on the guideway properties. A test rig for the elastic guideway levitation system was founded and the effectiveness of the new observer-controller was verified.