Title
Suboptimal receding horizon estimation via noise blocking.
Abstract
For discrete-time linear systems, we propose a suboptimal approach to constrained estimation so that the associated computation burden is reduced. This is achieved by enforcing a move blocking (MB) structure in the estimated process noise sequence (PNS). We show that full information estimation (FIE) and receding horizon estimation (RHE) with MB are both stable in the sense of an observer. The techniques in proving stability are inspired by those that have been proposed for standard RHE. To be specific, stability results are mainly achieved by (i) carefully embellishing the general assumptions for standard RHE to accommodate the MB requirement; (ii) exploiting the principle of optimality, as well as convexity of the quadratic programs (QPs) associated with FIE and RHE; (iii) relying on the fact that the Kalman filter is the best linear estimator in the least-squares sense. A crucial requirement in achieving stability for MB RHE is that the segment structure (SS) of the PNS of MB FIE for the optimization steps within the receding horizon (i.e., steps between T−N and T−1) has to be enforced in the MB RHE optimization. As a result, the MB RHE strategy becomes a dynamic estimator with a periodically varying computational complexity. The theoretical results have been illustrated with examples.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.automatica.2018.09.012
Automatica
Keywords
Field
DocType
Least-squares estimation,Constrained estimation,Optimal estimation,Recursive estimation,State estimation
Convexity,Linear system,Control theory,Quadratic equation,Bellman equation,Kalman filter,Observer (quantum physics),Mathematics,Estimator,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
98
1
0005-1098
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
He Kong1145.32
Salah Sukkarieh21142141.84