Multi-Sensor Fusion Approach with Fault Detection and Exclusion based on the Kullback-Leibler Divergence: Application on Collaborative Multi-Robot System
Résumé
This paper presents a multi-sensor fusion strategy able to detect the spurious sensors data that must be eliminated
from the fusion procedure. The used estimator is the informational form of the Kalman Filter (KF) namely Information Filter (IF).
In order to detect the erroneous sensors measurements, the Kullback-Leibler Divergence (KLD) between the a priori and a
posteriori distributions of the IF is computed. It is generated from two tests: One acts on the means and the other deals with the
covariance matrices. Optimal thresholding method based on a Kullback-Leibler Criterion (KLC) is developed and discussed in
order to replace classical approaches that fix heuristically the false alarm probability.
Multi-robot systems became one of the major fields of study in the indoor environment where the environmental monitoring and
the response to crisis must be ensured. Consequently, the robots required to know precisely their positions and orientations in
order to successfully perform their mission. Fault detection and exclusion (FDE) play a crucial role in enhancing the integrity of
localization of the multi-robot team. The main contributions of this paper are: - developing a new method of sensors data fusion
that tackle the erroneous data issues, - developing a Kullback-Leibler based criterion for the threshold optimization, - Validation
with real experimental data from a group of robots.