Date of Award
Spring 2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Yaz, Edwin E.
Second Advisor
Schneider, Susan C.
Third Advisor
Medeiros, Henry
Abstract
In this dissertation, the discrete-time extended Kalman filter is analyzed for its ability to attenuate finite-energy disturbances, known as the H-infinity property. Though the extended Kalman filter is designed to be a locally optimal minimum variance estimator, this dissertation proves that it has additional properties, such as H-infinity. This analysis is performed with the extended Kalman filter in direct form. Since this form reduces assumptions placed on the system in previous works on convergence and H-2 properties of the extended Kalman filter, the extended Kalman filter used as a nonlinear observer for noise-free models is revisited using the direct form to demonstrate these properties. Additionally, two representations for the discrete-time uncertain measurement model with finite-energy disturbances are considered: 1) each sensor in the measurement can fail independently with different failure rates and 2) all of the sensors in the measurement fail at the same time. The discrete-time extended Kalman filters designed for such models are analyzed for general convergence, the H-2 property, and the H-infinity property. As an extension of this work, the continuous-time extended Kalman filter is applied to systems with finite-energy disturbances. This continuous-time extended Kalman filter is shown to inherently have the H-infinity property. Simulation studies have been performed on all of the extended Kalman filters in this dissertation. These simulation studies demonstrate that when the extended Kalman filters converge, they will also exhibit the H-2 and H-infinity properties. The bounds developed on these properties are affected by the same constraints that affect convergence, i.e. magnitudes of the initial estimation error and the disturbance as well as the severity of the nonlinearities in the model.