Model-based Sparse Information Recovery by Collaborative Sensor Management

This paper considers the real-time recovery of a fast discrete signal (e.g., updated every T seconds) by using sparsely sampled sensor measurements whose sampling intervals are much larger than T (e.g., MT and NT, where M and N are integers). Assuming the fast signal is an autoregressive process with known parameters, we propose an online information recovery algorithm that reconstructs the missing, fast time series by a complementary modulation of the sensor speeds MT and NT, and by a model-based fusion of the sparsely collected data. We provide the collaborative sensing design, parametric analysis, existence of solutions, and optimization of the algorithm. Application to a closed-loop disturbance rejection problem reveals the feasibility to reject fast disturbance signals fully with only slow sensors in real time, and in particular, the rejection of narrow-band disturbances whose frequencies are much higher than the Nyquist frequencies of the sensors.

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