Title
Efficient distributed state estimation of hidden Markov Models over unreliable networks
Abstract
This paper presents a new recursive Hybrid consensus filter for distributed state estimation on a Hidden Markov Model (HMM), which is well suited to multirobot applications and settings. The proposed algorithm is scalable, robust to network failure and capable of handling non-Gaussian transition and observation models and is, therefore, quite general. No global knowledge of the communication network is assumed. Iterative Conservative Fusion (ICF) is used to reach consensus over potentially correlated priors, while consensus over likelihoods is handled using weights based on a Metropolis Hastings Markov Chain (MHMC). The proposed method is evaluated in a multi-agent tracking problem and a high-dimensional HMM and it is shown that its performance surpasses the competing algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/MRS.2017.8250939
2017 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
hidden Markov models,unreliable networks,recursive Hybrid consensus filter,multirobot applications,network failure,observation models,communication network,Iterative Conservative Fusion,Metropolis Hastings Markov Chain,distributed state estimation,nonGaussian transition handling,high-dimensional HMM
Markov process,Metropolis–Hastings algorithm,Computer science,Markov chain,Algorithm,Network topology,Hidden Markov model,Prior probability,Recursion,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-6310-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amirhossein Tamjidi100.34
Reza Oftadeh2194.80
S. Chakravorty312725.20
Dylan A. Shell433447.94