Robust event-triggered distributed fusion for multi-sensor systems with unknown failure rates

A robust event-triggered distributed fusion algorithm is investigated in this paper for multi-sensor systems with unknown failure rates. A detection technique based on standard Gaussian distributed filtering innovation is designed and applied to judge whether the measurement is failed. This filtering innovation can also be used to construct the event-triggered condition. Specifically, the event condition is not triggered if the innovation is below the lower event-triggered threshold and the measurement is regarded as the failure measurement if the innovation exceeds the higher threshold. In the above two cases, the sensor measurement data is not transferred to the local estimator; otherwise, it will be transferred. Then, the sequential fast covariance intersection (SFCI) fusion algorithm is used for local estimation fusion. Besides, to analyze the estimation performance, sufficient conditions are given to demonstrate the boundness of the local estimation and fusion estimation covariance. Finally, a simulation example is given to show the usefulness of the presented algorithm.