Distributed data‐driven observer for linear time invariant systems

Summary This paper is concerned with distributed data‐driven observer design problem. The existing data‐driven observers rely on a common assumption that all the information about the system, and the calculations based upon this information are centralized. Therefore the resulting algorithms cannot be applied to the distributed systems in which each local observer receives only a part of the output signal. On the other hand, traditional model‐based distributed state estimation methods generally assume that the processes are decomposed according to the known process models, while in data‐driven approaches there is no such information available. The main goal of this paper is to extend the centralized data‐driven observer design approach to the distributed framework. The stability of the proposed data‐driven distributed observer is also proved analytically. A quadruple‐tank process is simulated to demonstrate the performance of the proposed scheme.