IET Control Theory & Applications
Research Article
Distributed filtering for a class of periodic
non-linear systems with jumping
uncertainties and unreliable channels
ISSN 1751-8644
Received on 18th August 2016
Revised 17th December 2016
Accepted on 4th January 2017
E-First on 14th February 2017
doi: 10.1049/iet-cta.2016.1096
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Jie Tao
1
, Renquan Lu
2
, Hongye Su
1
, Zheng-Guang Wu
1
, Yong Xu
2
1
National Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Yuquan Campus, Hangzhou
310027, People's Republic of China
2
Guangdong Key Laboratory of IoT Information Processing, School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006,
People's Republic of China
E-mail: rqlu@gdut.edu.cn
Abstract: The problem of distributed filtering for discrete-time periodic non-linear systems over sensor networks in the presence
of jumping uncertainties and unreliable channels is investigated in this study. A random variable which is subject to a Markov
chain is introduced to govern the jumping uncertainties. Considering the unreliable channels between the system and filters, a
discrete-time fading model is introduced to describe this channel fading phenomenon with the discrete probability distribution of
each channel coefficients known a priori. On the basis of a fixed network topology, by establishing the periodic Lyapunov
function, sufficient conditions on the existence of distributed filter are proposed to ensure the stability and dissipativity of the
filtering error system. The distributed filter for discrete-time periodic non-linear systems is designed via solving a set of linear
matrix inequalities. The merits and validity of the proposed design techniques are verified by means of a numerical simulation
example.
1 Introduction
As a special type of complex networks, sensor networks are usually
composed of a large number of sensor nodes which have limited
computation capabilities and communication energy. During the
past few decades, sensor networks have been a very hot topic due
to its advantages including easy maintenance, installation, low cost
etc. Therefore, sensor networks have been widely used in many
practical situations such as information collection, wireless
network and military sensing [1, 2]. Accordingly, a large spectrum
of theoretical achievements on filtering and fault detection
problems for sensor networks has been obtained [3–11]. For
example, the fault detection problem for discrete-time Markovian
jump systems in the presence of randomly varying non-linearities
and sensor saturation has been studied in [3]. In [10], to obtain less
conservative results, the small scale gain theorem has been utilised.
Furthermore, based on the model transformation method, the
desired distributed fuzzy filter parameters are solved for discrete-
time Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems over a class of sensor
networks taking into account the joint effect of time-varying delays
and multiple probabilistic packet losses.
It should be pointed out that due primarily to the abrupt
environment disturbances or sudden structural changes, the
parameter uncertainties would appear in a probabilistic way in real
situations [12], which would unavoidably deteriorate the overall
system performance. As we all know, Markov model [13–22] is
very suitable for describing this phenomenon. Motivated by
Aberkane and Dragan [23], a random variable, which is subject to a
two-state Markov chain, is used to model this jumping
uncertainties. Furthermore, the network-induced phenomena
including the packet dropouts, communication delays and the
channel fading phenomenon has not attracted considerable research
interest despite its frequently occurrence in practical applications
[24]. In recent years, some initial research attention have been
attracted to deal with the problems of sensor networks with fading
channels, see [25]. Up to now, the design of filter to cope with the
randomly occurring uncertainties and fading channels has not been
thoroughly studied yet.
Periodic systems have been a focus of research in the past few
decades, since they can be applied to multiplexed systems,
communication scheduling, aerospace and so on [26]. Accordingly,
there is a rich and growing literature that established the study of
periodic systems, see [27–29]. It is worth mentioning that non-
linearity is ubiquitous in many practical situations and one of
sources for causing instability and unsatisfactory performance.
Very recently, some researchers consider periodic non-linear
systems. In [30], sufficient conditions for uniform local and global
asymptotic stabilisation of general non-linear systems with periodic
coefficients have been obtained by using a method for constructing
a damping control based on a generalisation of weak Jurdjevic–
Quinn conditions. In [31], by resorting to a mode-dependent
Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, a dissipative filter has been
designed for discrete-time periodic MJSs subject to continuous and
bounded non-linearity.
Motivated by the aforementioned considerations, the problem
of distributed filtering of discrete-time periodic non-linear systems
in the presence of jumping uncertainties and unreliable channels is
studied in this paper. On the basis of a periodic Lyapunov
functional, the sufficient conditions are given to ensure the stability
and dissipativity of the filtering error system. By constructing a
special Lyapunov matrix P(k), the distributed filter gains are
derived via solving a set of linear matrix inequalities. A simulation
result is utilised to illustrate the validity of the developed design
techniques.
Notations: The notations used throughout this paper are fairly
standard.
ℝ
n
denotes the n-dimensional Euclidean space. The
notation P > 0 ( ⩾ 0) means that P is real symmetric and positive
definite (positive semi-definite). The symbol ⊗ denotes the
Kronecker product. I and 0 represent the identity matrix and the
zero matrix with appropriate dimensions, respectively. The
superscript ‘
T’ represents the transpose. l
2
[0, ∞) is the space of
square-summable vector functions over [0, ∞). ∥ ⋅ ∥ denotes the
Euclidean norm of a vector. Moreover, in symmetric block
matrices, ‘ ∗’ denotes the term that is induced by symmetry, and
diag{⋯} stands for a block-diagonal matrix. Besides, E{x} and
E{x | y} will, respectively, mean expectation of x and expectation of
x condition on y. Matrices, if their dimensions are not explicitly
stated, are assumed to have compatible dimensions for algebraic
operations.
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