Event‐triggered resilient joint mobile robot localization and sensor fault estimation

Summary The event‐triggered joint sensor fault estimation and mobile robot (MR) localization (MRL) problem (MRLP) subject to the potential fluctuations of the estimator gain are investigated. From the external sensor to the estimator, to decrease the consumption of sensor energy and cut down network bandwidth resources, an event‐triggered scheme is considered. For the sake of characterizing the phenomenon induced by the inaccurate calculation of estimator gain, an uncertainty with the bounded second moment is employed. The purpose of this study is theoretically to find a feasible and effective approach to the addressed joint estimation problem such that the estimation error (EE) covariance (EEC) meets the given performance index. First, a minimum upper bound (UB) of the EEC is derived. Subsequently, in terms of the proposed joint estimation approach and the corresponding results obtained, an algorithm to address the resilient joint sensor fault estimation and MRLP is summarized. At the end, the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated through conducting a set of comparisive experiments.