Multi-sensor and Information-Based Event Triggered Distributed Estimation

The paper is motivated by recent surge of interest in utilization of a large number of sensor nodes in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) and the critical importance of managing sensor's restricted resources. In this regard, we propose a multi-sensor and open-loop estimation algorithm with an information-based triggering mechanism. In the open-loop topology considered in this paper, each sensor transfers its measurements to the fusion centre (FC) only in occurrence of specific events (asynchronously). Events are identified using the information-based triggering mechanism without incorporation of a feedback from the FC and/or implementation of a local filter at the sensor level. We propose a multi-sensor triggering approach based on the projection of each local observation into the state-space which corresponds to the achievable gain in the sensor's information state vector. The simulation results show that the proposed multi-sensor information-based triggering mechanism closely follows its full-rate estimation counterpart.