Publication

On state-estimation in weakly-observable scenarios and implicitly regularized observers

Conference Article

Conference

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Edition

60th

Pages

3996-4001

Doc link

https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9682914

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Abstract

This work proposes a framework to design observers for systems that present low observability. It is shown that, in these scenarios, the estimation problem becomes ill-posed, which drastically limits the performance of standard observers, specially in the presence of noise. Consequently, this paper presents a method to design an observer that optimizes some potential function to be defined by the designer. This allows to implicitly regularize the estimation and recover a well-posed problem. The proposed technique is validated in a set of weakly-observable systems and the performance is compared with a common Kalman filter-like observer.

Categories

control theory, observability.

Author keywords

linear observers

Scientific reference

A. Cecilia and R. Costa. On state-estimation in weakly-observable scenarios and implicitly regularized observers, 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2021, Austin, TX, USA (Virtual), pp. 3996-4001.