A dynamic Bayesian nonparametric model for blind calibration of sensor networks

We consider the problem of blind calibration of a sensor network, where the sensor gains and offsets are estimated from noisy observations of unknown signals. This is in general a nonidentifiable problem, unless restrictive assumptions on the signal subspace or sensor observations are imposed. We sh...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Yang, Jielong, Zhong, Xionghu, Tay, Wee Peng
مؤلفون آخرون: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: 2019
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102693
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47842
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الملخص:We consider the problem of blind calibration of a sensor network, where the sensor gains and offsets are estimated from noisy observations of unknown signals. This is in general a nonidentifiable problem, unless restrictive assumptions on the signal subspace or sensor observations are imposed. We show that if each signal observed by the sensors follows a known dynamic model with additive noise, then the sensor gains and offsets are identifiable. We propose a dynamic Bayesian nonparametric model to infer the sensors’ gains and offsets. Our model allows different sensor clusters to observe different unknown signals, without knowing the sensor clusters a priori . We develop an offline algorithm using block Gibbs sampling and a linearized forward filtering backward sampling method that estimates the sensor clusters, gains, and offsets jointly. Furthermore, for practical implementation, we also propose an online inference algorithm based on particle filtering and local Markov chain Monte Carlo. Simulations using a synthetic dataset, and experiments on two real datasets suggest that our proposed methods perform better than several other blind calibration methods, including a sparse Bayesian learning approach, and methods that first cluster the sensor observations and then estimate the gains and offsets.