Event-Triggered Sensor Fault Estimation of Unreliable Networked Unmanned Surface Vehicle System With Correlated Noises

The problem of sensor fault estimation has been studied for Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) systems in networked environment. Assuming that the process noise is related to the measurement noise and packet loss will occur during the measurement transmission. We use an event-trigger mechanism (ETM) to save communication resources. Accordingly, an observer is proposed to estimate the state and sensor fault, and the trigger threshold is associated with the correlation coefficient. By adjusting the threshold, the observer performance and energy consumption can be balanced in an ideal situation. The observer designed in this paper reduces the effects of correlation noises effectively and good handling network packet losses, and it has been proved that the expected covariance of the estimation error is bounded. Finally, the simulation experiment on the identified model of USV in the laboratory is performed to validate the relevant conclusions.