ADMM-Based Distributed Kalman-like Observer with Applications to Cooperative Localization
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| author | De Carli, Nicola Bastianello, Nicola Dimarogonas, Dimos V. |
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| contents | This paper addresses distributed state estimation for multi-agent systems with local and relative measurements, motivated by cooperative localization problems in which the global state dimension scales with the size of the network. We consider a Kalman-like observer in information form and introduce a sparsity-preserving prediction step based on an exponential forgetting factor, thereby avoiding the dense Riccati recursion of the standard information filter. The correction step is recast as a strongly convex quadratic program with structure induced by the sensing graph, which enables a distributed solution based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). In the resulting scheme, each agent updates local copies of its own correction variable and those of its neighbors using only local communication, thus avoiding centralized matrix inversion and consensus over full global-state quantities. A two-time-scale stability analysis is developed for the interconnected observer: the reduced estimation-error dynamics are shown to be uniformly exponentially stable, the ADMM dynamics define an exponentially stable fast subsystem, and these properties are combined to establish uniform exponential stability of the overall distributed observer. Numerical simulations in a multi-agent cooperative localization scenario illustrate the performance of the proposed distributed observer. |
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| spellingShingle | ADMM-Based Distributed Kalman-like Observer with Applications to Cooperative Localization De Carli, Nicola Bastianello, Nicola Dimarogonas, Dimos V. Systems and Control This paper addresses distributed state estimation for multi-agent systems with local and relative measurements, motivated by cooperative localization problems in which the global state dimension scales with the size of the network. We consider a Kalman-like observer in information form and introduce a sparsity-preserving prediction step based on an exponential forgetting factor, thereby avoiding the dense Riccati recursion of the standard information filter. The correction step is recast as a strongly convex quadratic program with structure induced by the sensing graph, which enables a distributed solution based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). In the resulting scheme, each agent updates local copies of its own correction variable and those of its neighbors using only local communication, thus avoiding centralized matrix inversion and consensus over full global-state quantities. A two-time-scale stability analysis is developed for the interconnected observer: the reduced estimation-error dynamics are shown to be uniformly exponentially stable, the ADMM dynamics define an exponentially stable fast subsystem, and these properties are combined to establish uniform exponential stability of the overall distributed observer. Numerical simulations in a multi-agent cooperative localization scenario illustrate the performance of the proposed distributed observer. |
| title | ADMM-Based Distributed Kalman-like Observer with Applications to Cooperative Localization |
| topic | Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21608 |