Event-triggered diffusion estimation for asynchronous sensor networks with unreliable measurements

This article aims at investigating the event-triggered (ET) distributed estimation problem for asynchronous sensor networks with randomly occurred unreliable measurements. We propose two ET mechanisms to schedule data transmissions in this paper. One ET mechanism based on dual-criterion is proposed to schedule the transmissions of measurements and avoid the interferences from unreliable measurements. The other ET mechanism is proposed to schedule the transmissions of local estimates. The connotative information in aforementioned ET mechanisms is exploited for taking full use of available information. Then, we provide the corresponding event-triggered asynchronous diffusion estimator based on the diffusion filtering scheme. In the proposed method, a sensor first generates a local estimate by utilizing available information of asynchronous measurements in each estimation period. Then it fuses available information of asynchronous local estimates to generate a fused estimate. Results of simulations in different cases and experiment in an optical-electronic detection network verify the validity and feasibility of the proposed method. (C) 2018 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.