Optimal fusion state estimator for a multi-sensor system subject to multiple packet dropouts

In this note,we study the state estimation problem for a multi-sensor system subject to multiple packet dropouts.A novel optimal distributed fusion estimator is derived by applying a resending mechanism and a parallel information filtering structure.It is shown that the proposed distributed fusion estimator has smaller estimation error covariance and less computation complexity when compared with the centralised Kalman like estimator with multiple intermittent measurements.