Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
2009-06-09
Statistics
Applications
Scientific paper
Sinopoli et al. (TAC, 2004) considered the problem of optimal estimation for linear systems with Gaussian noise and intermittent observations, available according to a Bernoulli arrival process. They showed that there is a "critical" arrival probability of the observations, such that under that threshold the expected value of the covariance matrix (i.e., the quadratic error) of the estimate is unbounded. Sinopoli et al., and successive authors, interpreted this result implying that the behavior of the system is qualitatively different above and below the threshold. This paper shows that this is not necessarily the only interpretation. In fact, the critical probability is different if one considers the average error instead of the average quadratic error. More generally, finding a meaningful "average" covariance is not as simple as taking the algebraic expected value. A rigorous way to frame the problem is in a differential geometric framework, by recognizing that the set of covariance matrices (or better, the manifold of Gaussian distributions) is not a flat space, and then studying the intrinsic Riemannian mean. Several metrics on this manifold are considered that lead to different critical probabilities, or no critical probability at all.
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