15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
OPTIMAL STATE ESTIMATION IN NETWORKED SYSTEMS VIA SENSOR CONTROL
Alexey S. Matveev* Andrey V. Savkin**
* Department of Mathematics and Mechanics,
Saint Petersburg University,
Bybliotechnaya 2, Petrodvoretz, St. Petersburg, 198904, Russia;
almat@am1540.spb.edu
** School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications,
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia;
a.savkin@unsw.edu.au

We study a linear discrete-time partially observed system perturbed by white noises. The observations are transmitted to the controller via communication channels with irregular transmission times. Various measurement signals may incur independent delays, arrive at the estimator out of order, and be lost or corrupted. The estimator is given a dynamic control over the sensors data by selecting signals to be used from those arrived at the current time. The minimum variance state estimate and the optimal sensor control strategy are obtained. Ideas of model predictive control are employed to derive a non-optimal but implementable in real time method for sensor control.
Keywords: communication networks, optimal state estimation, optimal sensor control
Session slot T-Tu-E17: Optimal Control: Theory and Design II/Area code 2d : Optimal Control