Authors
Shixiong Wang, Zhongming Wu, Andrew Lim
Publication date
2021/10/7
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Volume
69
Pages
5963-5978
Publisher
IEEE
Description
Modeling uncertainties for real linear systems are unavoidable. These uncertainties can significantly degrade the performance of optimal state estimators designed for nominal system models. The challenge is quantifying such uncertainties and devising robust estimators that are insensitive to them. This paper is therefore concerned with distributionally robust state estimation for linear Markov systems. We propose a new modeling framework that describes uncertainties using a family of distributions so that the worst-case robust estimate in the state space is made over the least-favorable distribution. This framework uses only one or two scalars to express the uncertainty set and does not require the structural information of model uncertainties. Furthermore, the moment-based ambiguity set is suggested to embody the distributional uncertainty family. As a result, the estimation problem transforms into a nonlinear …
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