Estimation for Uncertain Linear Systems with Jump Parameters.

Abstract

The problem of state estimation for a class of linear discrete-time dynamical systems with unknown time-varying parameters is investigated. Attention is focused mainly on systems with unknown noise statistics. Two different approaches to modelling and estimation under time-varying uncertainties are investigated. In one of the approaches, a finite state Markov chain model is used for the jump parameters which can take values only from a finite set with transitions from one value to another determined by a Markov transition probability matrix. The transition matrix may or may not be known; if unknown, it is assumed to belong to a finite set. A Bayes optimal solution is obtained in a recursive form and several suboptimal algorithms are discussed to alleviate the large storage and computation requirements of the optimal estimator. The asymptotic behavior of the optimal solution for the case of unknown transition probabilities is analyzed. In the second approach, multiple bounds on the unknown parameter values and its time derivatives are assumed to be available. A detection-estimation approach is proposed for state estimation and its asymptotic behavior is analyzed. The main objective of the proposed approach is to reduce the pessimism of the standard minimax estimator for large observation records and large uncertainties, while retaining its desirable small-sample properties.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA069769

Entities

People

  • Jitendra Kumar Tugnait

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Estimators
  • Information Science
  • Information Theory
  • Kalman Filters
  • Markov Chains
  • Mathematical Filters
  • Optimal Estimators
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Statistical inference.