Resilient Sensor Placement for Kalman Filtering in Networked Systems: Complexity and Algorithms

Given a linear dynamical system affected by noise, we study the problem of optimally placing sensors (at design-time) subject to a sensor placement budget constraint in order to minimize the trace of the steady-state error covariance of the corresponding Kalman filter. While this problem is NP-hard...

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Published in:arXiv.org
Main Authors: Ye, Lintao, Roy, Sandip, Sundaram, Shreyas
Format: Paper
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 24.06.2020
Subjects:
Algorithms
Budgets
Computation
Covariance
Kalman filters
Optimization
Placement
Polynomials
Sensors
Steady state
Strategy
System dynamics
ISSN:2331-8422
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Summary:Given a linear dynamical system affected by noise, we study the problem of optimally placing sensors (at design-time) subject to a sensor placement budget constraint in order to minimize the trace of the steady-state error covariance of the corresponding Kalman filter. While this problem is NP-hard in general, we consider the underlying graph associated with the system dynamics matrix, and focus on the case when there is a single input at one of the nodes in the graph. We provide an optimal strategy (computed in polynomial-time) to place the sensors over the network. Next, we consider the problem of attacking (i.e., removing) the placed sensors under a sensor attack budget constraint in order to maximize the trace of the steady-state error covariance of the resulting Kalman filter. Using the insights obtained for the sensor placement problem, we provide an optimal strategy (computed in polynomial-time) to attack the placed sensors. Finally, we consider the scenario where a system designer places the sensors under a sensor placement budget constraint, and an adversary then attacks the placed sensors subject to a sensor attack budget constraint. The resilient sensor placement problem is to find a sensor placement strategy to minimize the trace of the steady-state error covariance of the Kalman filter corresponding to the sensors that survive the attack. We show that this problem is NP-hard, and provide a pseudo-polynomial-time algorithm to solve it.
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ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2006.14036