15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A ROLLING HORIZON STATE ESTIMATOR WITH CONSTRAINT HORIZON ONE
José A. De Doná* Graham C. Goodwin*
Arthur Jutan*
* Centre for Integrated Dynamics and Control
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Newcastle
NSW 2308, Australia

This paper describes a method for constrained state estimation based on receding horizon optimization. The case studied here corresponds to an optimization horizon of size two and a constraint horizon of size one. It is shown that, in this case, a simple closed-form solution can be obtained. The resulting estimator is called a Rolling Horizon Estimator with Constraint Horizon One. It is shown that this estimator is analogous to a class of anti-windup control algorithms. Simulation results confirm the merits of using this scheme for state estimation in the presence of state constraints.
Keywords: constraints, estimators, Kalman filter, state estimation, windup
Session slot T-Mo-A01: Filtering and State Estimation/Area code 3a : Modelling, Identification and Signal Processing