Extremum seeking under stochastic noise and applications to mobile sensors

  • Authors:
  • Miloš S. Stanković;Dušan M. Stipanović

  • Affiliations:
  • ACCESS Linnaeus Center, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper the extremum seeking algorithm with sinusoidal perturbations has been extended and modified in two ways: (a) the output of the system is corrupted with measurement noise; (b) the amplitudes of the perturbation signals, as well as the gain of the integrator block, are time varying and tend to zero at a pre-specified rate. Convergence to the extremal point, with probability one, has been proved. Also, as a consequence of being able to cope with a stochastic environment, it has been shown how the proposed algorithm can be applied to mobile sensors as a tool for achieving the optimal observation positions. The proposed algorithm has been illustrated through several simulations.