Active-Passive Dynamic Consensus Filters with Reduced Information Exchange and Time-Varying Agent Roles
Abstract
Active-passive dynamic consensus filters consist of agents subject to local observations of a process (i.e., active agents) and agents without any observations (i.e., passive agents). The key feature of these filters is that they enable the states of all agents to converge to the average of the observations only sensed by the active agents. Two sweeping generalizations can be made about existing active-passive dynamic consensus filters: 1) they utilize integral action-based distributed control algorithms such that each agent is required to continuously exchange both its current state and integral state information with its neighbors; and 2) they assume that the roles of active and passive agents are fixed; hence, these roles do not change with respect to time. The contribution of this paper is to introduce and analyze a new class of active-passive dynamic consensus filters using results from graph theory and systems science. Specifically, the proposed filters only require agents to exchange their current state information with neighbors in a simple and isotropic manner to reduce the overall information exchange cost of the network. In addition, we allow the roles of active and passive agents to be time-varying for making these filters suitable for a wide range of multiagent systems applications. We show that the proposed active-passive dynamic consensus filters enable the states of all agents to converge to an user-adjustable neighborhood of the average of the observations sensed by a time-varying set of active agents. We also generalize our results using event-triggered control theory such that agents schedule information exchange dependent on errors exceeding user-defined thresholds (not continuously). This generalization allows agents to further reduce the overall cost of interagent information exchange and to determine when to broadcast their information to their neighbors thus eliminating the need to synchronize their states. Four illustrative numerical examples and one experimental study are also presented to demonstrate our theoretical findings.
Recommended Citation
J. D. Peterson et al., "Active-Passive Dynamic Consensus Filters with Reduced Information Exchange and Time-Varying Agent Roles," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 844 - 856, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), May 2020.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2019.2896534
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Distributed Information Systems; Information Filtering; Multi-Agent Systems; Sensor Fusion; Sensor Network
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1063-6536
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 May 2020
Comments
This work was supported in part by the Dynamic Data-Driven Applications Systems Program of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant FA9550-17-1-0303, in part by the U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty and Student Fellowship Program, and in part by the Intelligent Systems Center of the Missouri University of Science and Technology.