Probabilistic Monitoring of Correlated Sensors for Nonlinear Processes in State Space

Shunyi Zhao; Yuriy S. Shmaliy; Choon Ki Ahn; Chunhui Zhao

doi:10.1109/TIE.2019.2907505

Probabilistic Monitoring of Correlated Sensors for Nonlinear Processes in State Space

Shunyi Zhao, Yuriy S. Shmaliy, Choon Ki Ahn, Chunhui Zhao

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Abstract

To optimize control and/or state estimation of industrial processes, information about measurement quality provided by sensors is required. In this paper, a probabilistic scheme is proposed in discrete-time nonlinear state space with the purpose of sensor monitoring. A quantitative index representing the measurement quality, as well as satisfied state estimates, is obtained by estimating the probability density functions (PDFs) of the states and the measurement noise covariance considered as a random variable using the variational Bayesian approach. To solve the intractable integrals of nonlinear PDFs in real time, a set of weighted particles is generated to overlap an empirical density of state, while the PDF of the measurement noise is still derived analytically. An example of localization and an experiment with a rotary flexible joint are supplied to demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly improves the applicability of existing methods and can monitor correlated sensors satisfactorily.

Original language	English
Article number	8678661
Pages (from-to)	2294-2303
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Volume	67
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2019.2907505
Publication status	Published - 2020 Mar

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Funding Information:
Manuscript received June 18, 2018; revised November 3, 2018, January 3, 2019, and February 13, 2019; accepted March 5, 2019. Date of publication April 1, 2019; date of current version October 31, 2019. This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61833007 and Grant 61603155, in part by the 111 Project under Grant B12018, and in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea through the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning under Grant NRF-2017R1A1A1A05001325. (Corresponding authors: Shunyi Zhao; Choon Ki Ahn.) S. Zhao is with the Key Laboratory of Advanced Process Control for Light Industry (Ministry of Education), Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China (e-mail:,shunyi.s.y@gmail.com).

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© 1982-2012 IEEE.

Keywords

Nonlinear process
particle approximation
sensor monitoring
state estimation
variational Bayesian (VB) inference

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Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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