Title
A robust null space method for linear equality constrained state estimation
Abstract
We present a robust null space method for linear equality constrained state space estimation. Exploiting a degeneracy in the estimator statistics, an orthogonal factorization is used to decompose the problem into stochastic and deterministic components, which are then solved separately. The resulting dimension reduction algorithm has enhanced numerical stability, solves the constrained problem completely, and can reduce computational load by reducing the problem size. The new method addresses deficiencies in commonly used pseudo-observation or projection methods, which either do not solve the constrained problem completely or have unstable numerical implementations, due in part to the degeneracy in the estimator statistics. We present a numerical example demonstrating the effectiveness of the new method compared to other current methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TSP.2010.2048901
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Kalman filters,state estimation,stochastic processes,Kalman filtering,computational load,deterministic component,dimension reduction,estimator statistics,linear equality constrained state space estimation,numerical stability,orthogonal factorization,robust null space method,stochastic component,Estimation,Kalman filtering,linear equality constraints
Kernel (linear algebra),Mathematical optimization,Degeneracy (mathematics),Estimation theory,State space,Numerical stability,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory,Estimator,Constrained optimization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
8
1053-587X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.54
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Russell J. Hewett1122.02
Michael T. Heath236673.58
Mark D. Butala3244.80
Farzad Kamalabadi49817.82