Research Article

Distributed Robust Kalman Filtering with Unknown and Noisy Parameters in Sensor Networks

Algorithm 1

1. Initialization: , , , ;
2. while new data is received, do
3. Locally compute the weighted average of estimations and covariances about system parameters:
;
4. Compute the Kalman estimate of the system parameters:
,
,
5. Locally aggregate data and compute the weighted average of estimations and covariances about state estimation:
,
,
,
,
,
where and , is the number of nodes in set ;
if is observable, and for , ,
else
6.Compute the robust Kalman estimate of the target state:
if there exists such that
,
then ;
where,
,
,
,
,
and are updated using the following equation:
,