Cooperative Robot Localization Using Event-triggered Estimation

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Cooperative Robot Localization Using Event-triggered Estimation
المؤلفون: Ouimet, Michael, Iglesias, David, Ahmed, Nisar, Martinez, Sonia
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: Computer Science
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Robotics, Computer Science - Systems and Control, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing, Statistics - Applications
الوصف: This paper describes a novel communication-spare cooperative localization algorithm for a team of mobile unmanned robotic vehicles. Exploiting an event-based estimation paradigm, robots only send measurements to neighbors when the expected innovation for state estimation is high. Since agents know the event-triggering condition for measurements to be sent, the lack of a measurement is thus also informative and fused into state estimates. The robots use a Covariance Intersection (CI) mechanism to occasionally synchronize their local estimates of the full network state. In addition, heuristic balancing dynamics on the robots' CI-triggering thresholds ensure that, in large diameter networks, the local error covariances remains below desired bounds across the network. Simulations on both linear and nonlinear dynamics/measurement models show that the event-triggering approach achieves nearly optimal state estimation performance in a wide range of operating conditions, even when using only a fraction of the communication cost required by conventional full data sharing. The robustness of the proposed approach to lossy communications, as well as the relationship between network topology and CI-based synchronization requirements, are also examined.
Comment: Revised submission in review with AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (JAIS), submitted February 17, 2018
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07346
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1802.07346
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv