Brief paper: Data-driven communication for state estimation with sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Giorgio Battistelli;Alessio Benavoli;Luigi Chisci

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, DSI-Universití di Firenze, Via Santa Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy;Istituto 'Dalle Molle' di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, 6928 Manno-Lugano, Switzerland;Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, DSI-Universití di Firenze, Via Santa Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of estimating the state of a discrete-time linear stochastic dynamical system on the basis of data collected from multiple sensors subject to a limitation on the communication rate from the sensors. More specifically, the attention is devoted to a centralized sensor network consisting of: (1) multiple remote nodes which collect measurements of the given system, compute state estimates at the full measurement rate and transmit data (either raw measurements or estimates) at a reduced communication rate; (2) a fusion node that, based on received data, provides an estimate of the system state at the full rate. Local data-driven transmission strategies are considered and issues related to the stability and performance of such strategies are investigated. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed strategies.