DIFNet: Decentralized Information Filtering Fusion Neural Network with Unknown Correlation in Sensor Measurement Noises

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Auteurs principaux: Dong, Ruifeng, Wang, Ming, Liu, Ning, Guo, Tong, Kang, Jiayi, Shen, Xiaojing, Mao, Yao
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author Dong, Ruifeng
Wang, Ming
Liu, Ning
Guo, Tong
Kang, Jiayi
Shen, Xiaojing
Mao, Yao
author_facet Dong, Ruifeng
Wang, Ming
Liu, Ning
Guo, Tong
Kang, Jiayi
Shen, Xiaojing
Mao, Yao
contents In recent years, decentralized sensor networks have garnered significant attention in the field of state estimation owing to enhanced robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance. Optimal fusion performance can be achieved under fully connected communication and known noise correlation structures. To mitigate communication overhead, the global state estimation problem is decomposed into local subproblems through structured observation model. This ensures that even when the communication network is not fully connected, each sensor can achieve locally optimal estimates of its observable state components. To address the degradation of fusion accuracy induced by unknown correlations in measurement noise, this paper proposes a data-driven method, termed Decentralized Information Filter Neural Network (DIFNet), to learn unknown noise correlations in data for discrete-time nonlinear state space models with cross-correlated measurement noises. Numerical simulations demonstrate that DIFNet achieves superior fusion performance compared to conventional filtering methods and exhibits robust characteristics in more complex scenarios, such as the presence of time-varying noise. The source code used in our numerical experiment can be found online at https://wisdom-estimation.github.io/DIFNet_Demonstrate/.
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spellingShingle DIFNet: Decentralized Information Filtering Fusion Neural Network with Unknown Correlation in Sensor Measurement Noises
Dong, Ruifeng
Wang, Ming
Liu, Ning
Guo, Tong
Kang, Jiayi
Shen, Xiaojing
Mao, Yao
Signal Processing
In recent years, decentralized sensor networks have garnered significant attention in the field of state estimation owing to enhanced robustness, scalability, and fault tolerance. Optimal fusion performance can be achieved under fully connected communication and known noise correlation structures. To mitigate communication overhead, the global state estimation problem is decomposed into local subproblems through structured observation model. This ensures that even when the communication network is not fully connected, each sensor can achieve locally optimal estimates of its observable state components. To address the degradation of fusion accuracy induced by unknown correlations in measurement noise, this paper proposes a data-driven method, termed Decentralized Information Filter Neural Network (DIFNet), to learn unknown noise correlations in data for discrete-time nonlinear state space models with cross-correlated measurement noises. Numerical simulations demonstrate that DIFNet achieves superior fusion performance compared to conventional filtering methods and exhibits robust characteristics in more complex scenarios, such as the presence of time-varying noise. The source code used in our numerical experiment can be found online at https://wisdom-estimation.github.io/DIFNet_Demonstrate/.
title DIFNet: Decentralized Information Filtering Fusion Neural Network with Unknown Correlation in Sensor Measurement Noises
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18854