Scalable Distributed State Estimation for a Class of State-Saturated Systems Subject to Quantization Effects

This paper investigates the problem of a scalable distributed state estimation for a class of discrete time-variant systems with state-saturation, quantization effects, and two redundant channels over a sensor network. In transmission data from a sensor to its estimator, two phenomena are considered together. First, the data of each sensor is transmitted to its estimator through two redundant communication channels. Second, innovation data is quantized before being used by the estimator. These phenomena are beneficial in alleviating the negative effects on measurements and reducing the energy consumption and bandwidth. In the structure of proposed filter consensus is used on estimations in which consensus is first achieved on the prediction estimation, then the accuracy of computed estimation is improved by two recursive equations. The parameters of the proposed filter are obtained for each sensor node by employing an upper bound for common error covariance, therefore less computational burden is required. Eventually, the comparative simulation results are presented to show that our method has better performance compared with a rival one recently published.