Aperiodic Optimal Linear Estimation for Networked Systems With Communication Uncertainties

IEEE Trans Cybern. 2017 Aug;47(8):2256-2265. doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2017.2684136. Epub 2017 Apr 10.

Abstract

The aperiodic optimal linear estimator design problem is investigated in this paper for networked systems with communication uncertainties, including delays and data losses, where the sampling and estimation are nonuniform and asynchronous. Based on the idea of measurement fusion, two approaches are proposed to design the aperiodic estimators, and it is shown that the estimator is equivalent to that designed by the measurement augmentation method in performance. Moreover, the estimation performance is improved by using a newly proposed measurement retransmission scheme as compared with the commonly used hold-input and zero-input schemes, by which the lost measurements are never used once they are lost.