Dey, Subhrakanti and Schenato, Luca (2018) Heavy-tails in Kalman filtering with packet losses: Confidence bounds vs second moment stability. In: 2018 European Control Conference (ECC). IEEE, pp. 1480-1486. ISBN 9783952426982

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In this paper, we study the existence of a steady state distribution and its tail behaviour for the estimation error arising from Kalman filtering for unstable scalar systems. Although a large body of literature has studied the problem of Kalman filtering with packet losses in terms of analysis of the second moment, no study has addressed the actual distribution of the estimation error. By drawing results from Renewal Theory, in this work we show that under the assumption that packet loss probability is smaller than unity, and the system is on average contractive, a stationary distribution always exists and is heavytailed, i.e. its absolute moments beyond a certain order do not exist. We also show that under additional technical assumptions, the steady state distribution of the Kalman prediction error has an asymptotic power-law tail, i.e. P[|e| > s] ∼ s −α , as s → ∞, where α can be explicitly computed. We further explore how to optimally select the sampling period assuming exponential decay of packet loss probability with respect to the sampling period. In order to minimize the expected value of second moment or the confidence bounds, we illustrate that in general a larger sampling period will need to be chosen in the latter case as a result of the heavy tail behaviour.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Kalman Filtering; Packet Losses; Heavy-tailed Distributions; Power-Law Tails;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
Item ID:	13428
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.23919/ECC.2018.8550235
Depositing User:	Subhrakanti Dey
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2020 14:26
Publisher:	IEEE
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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