ROBUST KALMAN FILTERING FOR UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS

This paper studies the problem of Kalman filter design for uncertain systems. The system under consideration is subjected to time-varying norm-bounded parameter uncertainties in both the state and measurement matrices. The problem we address is the design of a state estimator such that the covariance of the estimation error is guaranteed to be within a certain bound for all admissible uncertainties. A Riccati equation approach is proposed to solve the above problem. Furthermore, a suboptimal covariance upper bound can be computed by a convex optimization.