2020/11/05 by Shun Liu, Zhifei Li, Liu, Shun +5
Computer Science · #Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems #Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms #FOS: Electrical engineering #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2011.02827
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Wireless sensor network has recently received much attention due to its broad applicability and ease-of-installation. This paper is concerned with a distributed state estimation problem, where all sensor nodes are required to achieve a consensus estimation. The weighted least squares (WLS) estimator is an appealing way to handle this problem since it does not need any prior distribution information. To this end, we first exploit the equivalent relation between the information filter and WLS estimator. Then, we establish an optimization problem under the relation coupled with a consensus constraint. Finally, the consensus-based distributed WLS problem is tackled by the alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM). Numerical simulation together with theoretical analysis testify the convergence and consensus estimations between nodes.