Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Volume 68, Issue 9, Pages 5381-5396Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3219285
Keywords
Sensors; Monitoring; Trajectory; Estimation; Linear programming; Task analysis; Space missions; Control over network; cooperative control; distributed estimation; event-driven control; sensor networks
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In this paper, we discuss the problem of estimating the states of a distributed network of nodes through a team of cooperating agents. We propose a distributed online agent controller where each agent controls their trajectory by solving a sequence of receding horizon control problems, and we also leverage machine learning to improve the computational efficiency.
We consider the problem of estimating the states of a distributed network of nodes (targets) through a team of cooperating agents (sensors) persistently visiting the nodes so that an overall measure of estimation error covariance evaluated over a finite period is minimized. We formulate this as a multiagent persistent monitoring problem where the goal is to control each agent's trajectory defined as a sequence of target visits and the corresponding dwell times spent making observations at each visited target. A distributed online agent controller is developed where each agent solves a sequence of receding horizon control problems (RHCPs) in an event-driven manner. A novel objective function is proposed for these RHCPs so as to optimize the effectiveness of this distributed estimation process and its unimodality property is established under some assumptions. Moreover, a machine learning solution is proposed to improve the computational efficiency of this distributed estimation process by exploiting the history of each agent's trajectory. Finally, extensive numerical results are provided indicating significant improvements compared to other state-of-the-art agent controllers.
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