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Distributed signal-processing algorithms in (wireless) sensor networks often aim to decentralize processing tasks to reduce communication cost and computational complexity or avoid reliance on a single device (i.e., fusion center) for…
The paper discusses fundamental detectability properties associated with the problem of distributed state estimation using networked observers. The main result of the paper establishes connections between detectability of the plant through…
We address the problem of attack detection and isolation for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems under (potentially unbounded) sensor attacks and measurement noise. We consider the case when a subset of sensors is subject to additive…
This paper utilizes the recently proposed cubic observer to estimate the state of a class of nonlinear systems. The cubic observer is proposed as an alternative to linear observers for improved convergence rate and robustness. It is shown…
We address the problem of state estimation and attack isolation for general discrete-time nonlinear systems when sensors are corrupted by (potentially unbounded) attack signals. For a large class of nonlinear plants and observers, we…
We present a new approach for deriving sampled-data observers from continuous-time observers that feature an Input-to-Output Stability property with respect to the output measurement noise and exponential convergence in the noiseless case.…
The sliding mode observer is a useful method for estimating the system state and the unknown disturbance. However, the traditional single-layer observer might still suffer from high pulse when the output measurement is mixed with noise. To…
The adaptive distributed observer approach has been an effective tool for synthesizing a distributed control law for solving various control problems of leader-follower multiagent systems. However, the existing adaptive distributed observer…
The paper considers gossip distributed estimation of a (static) distributed random field (a.k.a., large scale unknown parameter vector) observed by sparsely interconnected sensors, each of which only observes a small fraction of the field.…
In this paper, we consider a multi-agent resilient consensus problem, where some of the nodes may behave maliciously. The approach is to equip all nodes with a scheme to detect neighboring nodes when they behave in an abnormal fashion. To…
This paper presents a cooperative multi-robot multi-target tracking framework aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the heterogeneous sensor network and, consequently, improving overall target tracking accuracy. The concept of normalized…
A simultaneous input and state interval observer is presented for Lipschitz continuous nonlinear systems with unknown inputs and bounded noise signals for the case when the direct feedthrough matrix has full column rank. The observer…
This paper considers the problem of designing interval observers for hidden mode switched nonlinear systems with bounded noise signals that are compromised by false data injection and switching attacks. The proposed observer consists of…
We study how to design a secure observer-based distributed controller such that a group of vehicles can achieve accurate state estimates and formation control even if the measurements of a subset of vehicle sensors are compromised by a…
This paper considers the observer design problem for discrete-time nonlinear dynamical systems with sampled measurement data. Earlier, the recently proposed Iteratively Preconditioned Gradient-Descent (IPG) observer, a Newton-type observer,…
This paper introduces a new approach for output feedback stabilization of SISO systems which, unlike most of the techniques found in the literature, does not use high-gain observers and control input saturation to achieve separation between…
This paper presents two-hop relay gain-scheduling control in a Wireless Sensor Network to estimate a static target prior characterized by Gaussian probability distribution. The target is observed by a network of linear sensors, whose…
This paper proposes a novel unified interval-valued observer synthesis approach for locally Lipschitz nonlinear continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time (DT) systems with nonlinear observations. A key feature of our proposed observer, which…
Monitoring of hybrid systems attracts both scientific and practical attention. However, monitoring algorithms suffer from the methodological difficulty of only observing sampled discrete-time signals, while real behaviors are…
In this work, we investigate direction finding in the presence of sensor gain uncertainties and directional perturbations for sensor array processing in a multi-frequency scenario. Specifically, we adopt a distributed optimization scheme in…