Event-triggered filtering and fault estimation for nonlinear systems with stochastic sensor saturations

This paper is concerned with the filtering problem for a class of nonlinear systems with stochastic sensor saturations and event-triggered measurement transmissions. An event-triggered transmission scheme is proposed with hope to ease the traffic burden and improve the energy efficiency. The measurements are subject to randomly occurring sensor saturations governed by Bernoulli-distributed sequences. Special effort is made to obtain an upper bound of the filtering error covariance in the presence of linearisation errors, stochastic sensor saturations as well as event-triggered transmissions. A filter is designed to minimise the obtained upper bound at each time step by solving two sets of Riccati-like matrix equations, and thus the recursive algorithm is suitable for online computation. Sufficient conditions are established under which the filtering error is exponentially bounded in mean square. The applicability of the presented method is demonstrated by dealing with the fault estimation problem. An illustrative example is exploited to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.     

有色量测噪声下带广义未知扰动的递推上限滤波

针对博弈对抗环境下利用快速采样雷达进行非合作目标跟踪带来的有色噪声和未知干扰共存问题, 本文提出有色量测噪声下带广义未知扰动的随机动态系统递推上限滤波. 这里, 有色量测噪声用于描述由于快速采样或持续干扰带来的噪声相关性, 广义未知扰动用于建模博弈对抗对雷达观测带来的异常影响(先验信息缺失). 针对所考虑系统, 通过参数优化实现状态估计误差协方差上限(而不是理论值)的在线递推, 提出有色噪声下上限滤波(CU-BF), 给出状态估计误差协方差最小上限的近似实现, 讨论了所提CUBF的存在性条件. 在具有时变未知扰动和有色量测噪声的目标跟踪仿真中验证了所提方法的有效性.     

Event-triggered robust distributed state estimation for sensor networks with state-dependent noises

This paper is concerned with the event-triggered distributed state estimation problem for a class of uncertain stochastic systems with state-dependent noises and randomly occurring uncertainties over sensor networks. An event-triggered communication scheme is proposed in order to determine whether the measurements on each sensor should be transmitted to the estimators or not. The norm-bounded uncertainty enters into the system in a random way. Through available output measurements from not only the individual sensor but also its neighbouring sensors, a sufficient condition is established for the desired distributed estimator to ensure that the estimation error dynamics are exponentially mean-square stable. These conditions are characterized in terms of the feasibility of a set of linear matrix inequalities, and then the explicit expression is given for the distributed estimator gains. Finally, a simulation example is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed event-triggered distributed state estimation scheme.     

Gaussian approximate filter for stochastic dynamic systems with randomly delayed measurements and colored measurement noises带随机延迟量测和有色量测噪声随机动态系统的高斯近似滤波器

In this paper, a new Gaussian approximate (GA) filter for stochastic dynamic systems with both one-step randomly delayed measurements and colored measurement noises is presented. For linear systems, a Kalman filter can be obtained to include one-step randomly delayed measurements and colored measurement noises. On the other hand, for nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems, different GA filters can be developed which exploit numerical methods to compute Gaussian weighted integrals involved in the proposed Bayesian solution. Existing GA filter with one-step randomly delayed measurements and existing GA filter with colored measurement noises are special cases of the proposed GA filter. The efficiency and superiority of the proposed method are illustrated in a numerical example concerning a target tracking problem.     

广义系统Kalman融合器的研究

研究带自回归滑动平均(ARMA)有色观测噪声的多传感器广义离散随机线性系统,根据Kalman滤波方法和白噪声估计理论,在线性最小方差信息融合准则下,应用奇异值分解和增广状态空间模型,为了提高融合器的精度,提出了按矩阵加权降阶稳态广义Kalman融合器,可统一处理稳态滤波、平滑和预报问题,可减少计算负担和改善局部估计精度。并提出最优加权系数的局部估计误差方差和协方差阵的计算公式。用一个Monte Carlo数值仿真实例说明了所提方法的有效性。     

带有色观测噪声系统多传感器标量加权最优信息融合稳态Kalman滤波器

基于标量加权多传感器线性最小方差最优信息融合准则,对被多传感器观测的带有色观测噪声的离散线性随机控制系统,提出了一种具有两层融合结构的标量加权信息融合稳态Kalman滤波器,它等价于相应的带相关噪声系统的最优信息融合稳态Kalman预报器.最优信息融合稳态预报器可在所有局部预报器达到稳态时,通过一次融合获得,且任两个子系统之间的稳态预报误差互协方差阵可通过任选初值迭代求得,并证明了它的收敛性.通过将它应用到带三个传感器的雷达跟踪系统验证了其有效性.     

Preservation of input-to-state stability under sampling and emulation: multi-rate case

The stabilization problem of sampled-data non-linear systems is considered under the low measurement rate constraint. A multi-rate control scheme is proposed that utilizes a numerical integration scheme to approximately predict the current state. We show that if we design a continuous-time controller for a continuous-time plant so that the closed-loop continuous-time system is input-to-state stable and then discretize the controller and implement it using sample and zero order hold devices, then input-to-state stability property will be preserved for the sampled-data multi-rate closed loop system in a practical sense.     

Sequential fusion estimation for multisensor multirate systems with measurement outliers

This paper investigates the suboptimal sequential fusion estimation problem for multisensor multirate networked systems with colored measurement noises under the interference of measurement outliers. The saturation function is used to constrain the innovation polluted by measurement outliers. Due to diverse physical restrictions, the sampling period of the sensor is assumed to be different from the update period of the system state, thereby better reflecting the engineering practice. The lifting technique is used to convert the multirate sampling system into a single-rate form. By solving the matrix difference equation, an upper bound of the filtering error covariance is obtained, and the filter gain is then derived, which can minimize the upper bound of the error covariance. Finally, a simulation example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed sequential fusion method for multirate sampling systems under outlier interference.     

Estimation of wiener nonlinear systems with measurement noises utilizing correlation analysis and Kalman filter

This paper is concerned with parameter estimation of Wiener systems with measurement noises employing correlation analysis method and adaptive Kalman filter. The presented Wiener system consists of two series blocks, that is, a dynamic block represented by auto-regressive moving average (ARMA) model, and static nonlinear block established by neural fuzzy model. Aim at estimating separately the two blocks, the separable signals are introduced. First, applying the separable signals to decouple the identification of linear dynamic block from that of static nonlinear block, then ARMA model parameters are estimated employing correlation function-based least squares principle. Moreover, aiming at handle with error caused by colored measurement noise, adaptive Kalman filter technique and cluster method are introduced to estimate parameter of the nonlinear block and noises model, enhancing parameter estimation precision. The accuracy and applicability of estimated scheme presented are verified through numerical simulation and nonlinear process, the results demonstrate that it is feasible for estimating the Wiener systems in the presence of colored measurement noises.     

非均匀采样数据系统的一种辨识方法

阐述了非均匀采样方案,推导了非均匀多率采样系统的状态空间模型,进一步获得了对应的传递函数模型.为解决辨识模型信息向量中存在未知变量的问题,使用辅助模型技术,用辅助模型的输出代替系统的未知变量,进而提出了非均匀采样数据系统的辅助模型随机梯度辨识算法.为了提高算法收敛速度和改善参数估计精度,在算法中引入遗忘因子,给出了相应的辅助模型带遗忘因子随机梯度算法.仿真结果表明,引入遗忘因子后,算法的收敛速度加快,参数估计精度提高.     

The joint optimal filtering and fault detection for multi-rate sensor fusion under unknown inputs

In multi-sensor fusion, it is hard to guarantee that all sensors have an identical sampling rate, especially in the distributive and/or heterogeneous case. Meanwhile, stochastic noise, unknown inputs (UIs), and faults may coexist in complex environment. To this end, we propose the problem of joint optimal filtering and fault detection (FD) for multi-rate sensor fusion subject to UIs, stochastic noise with known covariance, and faults imposed on the actuator and sensors. Furthermore, the new scheme of optimal multi-rate observer (MRO) is presented and applied to detect faults. The observer parameters are determined optimally in pursuit of the UI decoupling and maximizing noise attenuation under the causality constraint due to multi-rate nature. Finally, the output estimation error of the MRO is used as a residual signal for FD via a hypothesis test in which the threshold is adaptively designed according to the MRO parameters. One numerical example is given to show the effectiveness of our proposed method.     

含有分数阶有色关联噪声的分数阶系统的卡尔曼滤波器设计

提出基于Tustin生成函数的分数阶卡尔曼滤波器设计方法,以解决含有相互关联的分数阶有色过程噪声和分数阶有色测量噪声的连续时间线性分数阶系统的状态估计问题.通过Tustin生成函数方法,对连续时间线性分数阶系统进行离散化,将分数阶系统的微分方程转化为差分方程.利用增广向量法,将分数阶状态方程和分数阶有色噪声作为新的增广状态向量,从而将分数阶有色噪声转化为高斯白噪声.然后,提出一种基于Tustin生成函数的分数阶卡尔曼滤波算法,有效地实现对含有相互关联的分数阶有色过程噪声和分数阶有色测量噪声的连续时间线性分数阶系统的状态估计.与基于Grddotunwald-Letnikov差分的离散化方法相比,所提出的基于Tustin生成函数的卡尔曼滤波算法得到的状态估计精度更高,状态估计效果更好.最后,通过仿真结果验证所提出算法的有效性.     

基于等价空间的多速率数据采样系统快速残差的产生

研究一类多速率数据采样系统基于等价空间的快速残差产生问题. 首先应用一种提升技术, 建立多速率数据采样系统的线性时不变提升模型, 并以提升模型为基础将基于等价空间的残差产生器设计问题归结为最小化问题. 然后, 利用该最小化问题解不唯一的特点, 求得满足因果关系的最优残差产生器. 进一步, 应用逆提升技术实现残差产生同步于测量输出采样的快速化. 算例验证了所提方法的有效性.     

A new information fusion white noise deconvolution estimator

The white noise deconvolution or input white noise estimation problem has important applications in oil seismic exploration, communication and signal processing. By the modern time series analysis method, based on the autoregressive moving average （ARMA） innovation model, a new information fusion white noise deconvolution estimator is presented for the general multisensor systems with different local dynamic models and correlated noises. It can handle the input white noise fused filtering, prediction and smoothing problems, and it is applicable to systems with colored measurement noises. It is locally optimal, and is globally suboptimal. The accuracy of the fuser is higher than that of each local white noise estimator. In order to compute the optimal weights, the formula computing the local estimation error cross-covariances is given. A Monte Carlo simulation example for the system with Bernoulli-Gaussian input white noise shows the effectiveness and performances.     

Robust centralized and integrated covariance intersection fusion Kalman estimators for networked mixed‐uncertain systems

For networked mixed uncertain time‐varying systems with uncertain noise variances, random one‐step measurement delay, state‐dependent and noise‐dependent multiplicative noises, and linearly dependent additive white noises, the robust local, centralized, and distributed fusion estimation problems are addressed. Three new approaches are presented, which include a new augmented state approach with fictitious white noises, an extended Lyapunov equation approach with two Lyapunov equations, and a universal integrated covariance intersection (ICI) fusion approach of integrating the minimax robust local Kalman estimators and their conservative cross‐covariances. They constitute a new important methodology of solving robust fusion estimation problems. Applying them, the local, centralized, and distributed ICI fusion time‐varying and steady‐state robust Kalman estimators (predictor, filter, and smoother) are presented in the sense that for all admissible uncertainties, their actual estimation error variances are guaranteed to have the corresponding minimal upper bounds. Their robustness, convergence, and accuracy relations are proved. Specially, the proposed ICI fusers improve the robust accuracies of the original covariance intersection fusers, and overcome their drawbacks, such that the local estimators and their conservative variances are assumed to be known, and the conservative cross‐variances are ignored. A simulation example with application to a vehicle suspension system shows the effectiveness of the proposed approaches and results.     

具有不同观测丢失率多传感器随机不确定系统的加权观测融合估计

本文研究了具有丢失观测的多传感器线性离散随机不确定系统的最优线性估计问题,其中不同的传感器具有不同的丢失率.首先将乘性噪声转化为加性噪声,然后基于矩阵满秩分解和加权最小二乘理论,提出了具有较小计算负担的加权观测融合估计算法.分析了加权观测融合估计算法的稳态特性,给出了稳态存在的一个充分条件.所提出的加权观测融合估值器与集中式融合估值器具有相同的精度,即具有全局最优性.仿真研究验证了算法的有效性.     

Robust weighted fusion Kalman estimators for multisensor systems with multiplicative noises and uncertain‐covariances linearly correlated white noises

This paper addresses the design of robust weighted fusion Kalman estimators for a class of uncertain multisensor systems with linearly correlated white noises. The uncertainties of the systems include the same multiplicative noises perturbations both on the systems state and measurement output and the uncertain noise variances. The measurement noises and process noise are linearly correlated. By introducing two fictitious noises, the system under consideration is converted into one with only uncertain noise variances. According to the minimax robust estimation principle, based on the worst‐case systems with the conservative upper bounds of the noise variances, the four robust weighted fusion time‐varying Kalman estimators are presented in a unified framework, which include three robust weighted state fusion estimators with matrix weights, diagonal matrix weights, scalar weights, and a modified robust covariance intersection fusion estimator. The robustness of the designed fusion estimators is proved by using the Lyapunov equation approach such that their actual estimation error variances are guaranteed to have the corresponding minimal upper bounds for all admissible uncertainties. The accuracy relations among the robust local and fused time‐varying Kalman estimators are proved. The corresponding robust local and fused steady‐state Kalman estimators are also presented, a simulation example with application to signal processing to show the effectiveness and correctness of the proposed results. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multi-sensor information fusion estimators for stochastic uncertain systems with correlated noises

The information fusion estimation problems are investigated for multi-sensor stochastic uncertain systems with correlated noises. The stochastic uncertainties caused by correlated multiplicative noises exist in the state and observation matrices. The process noise and the observation noises are one-step auto-correlated and two-step cross-correlated, respectively. While the observation noises of different sensors are one-step cross-correlated. The optimal centralized fusion filter, predictor and smoother are proposed in the linear minimum variance sense via an innovative analysis approach. To enhance the robustness and flexibility, a distributed fusion filter is put forward, which requires the calculation of filtering error cross-covariance matrices between any two local filters. To avoid the calculation of cross-covariance matrices, another distributed fusion filter is also presented by using the covariance intersection (CI) fusion algorithm, which can reduce the computational cost. A simulation example is given to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.     

On event design in event-triggered feedback systems

This paper studies event design in event-triggered feedback systems. A novel event-triggering scheme is presented to ensure exponential stability of the resulting sampled-data system. The scheme postpones the triggering of events over previously proposed methods and therefore enlarges the intersampling period. The resulting intersampling periods and deadlines are bounded strictly away from zero when the continuous time system is input-to-state stable with respect to measurement errors.     

多传感器最优信息融合白噪声反卷积滤波器

应用现代时间序列分析方法和白噪声估计理论,基于线性最小方差意义下按标量加权最优信息融合准则,对于带白色和有色观测噪声的多传感器单通道系统,提出了分布式融合白噪声反卷积滤波器.它由局部白噪声反卷积滤波器加权构成.可统一处理融合滤波、平滑和预报问题.给出了计算局部滤波误差互协方差公式,可用于计算最优加权.同单传感器情形相比,可提高融合滤波器精度.它可应用于石油地震勘探信号处理.一个3传感器信息融合Bernou lli-Gaussian白噪声反卷积滤波器的仿真例子说明了其有效性.