Optimal edge-cloud collaboration based strategies for minimizing valid latency of railway environment monitoring system

Response speed is vital for the railway environment monitoring system,especially for the sudden-onset disasters.The edge-cloud collaboration scheme is proved efficient to reduce the latency.However,the data characteristics and communication demand of the tasks in the railway environment monitoring system are all different and changeable,and the latency contribution of each task to the system is discrepant.Hence,two valid latency minimization strategies based on the edge-cloud collaboration scheme is developed in this paper.First,the processing resources are allocated to the tasks based on the priorities,and the tasks are processed parallly with the allocated resources to minimize the system valid latency.Furthermore,considering the differences in the data volume of the tasks,which will induce the waste of the resources for the tasks finished in advance.Thus,the tasks with similar priorities are graded into the same group,and the serial and parallel processing strategies are performed intra-group and inter-group simultaneously.Compared with the other four strategies in four railway monitoring scenarios,the proposed strategies proved latency efficiency to the high-priority tasks,and the system valid latency is reduced synchronously.The performance of the railway environment monitoring system in security and efficiency will be promoted greatly with the proposed scheme and strategies.

Indoor INS/UWB-based Human Localization With Missing Data Utilizing Predictive UFIR Filtering

A combined algorithm for the loosely fused ultra wide band(UWB)and inertial navigation system(INS)-based measurements is designed under the indoor human navigation conditions with missing data.The scheme proposed fuses the INS-and UWB-derived positions via a data fusion filter.Since the UWB signal is prone to drift in indoor environments and its outage highly affects the integrated scheme reliability,we also consider the missing data problem in UWB measurements.To overcome this problem,the loosely-coupled INS/UWB-integrated scheme is augmented with a prediction option based on the predictive unbiased finite impulse response(UFIR)fusion filter.We show experimentally that,the standard UFIR fusion filter has higher robustness than the Kalman filter.It is also shown that the predictive UFIR fusion filter is able to produce an acceptable navigation accuracy under temporary missing UWB-data.

Generalized Array Architecture with Multiple Sub-Arrays and Hole-Repair Algorithm for DOA Estimation

Arranging multiple identical sub-arrays in a special way can enhance degrees of freedom(DOFs)and obtain a hole-free difference co-array(DCA).In this paper,by adjusting the interval of adjacent sub-arrays,a kind of generalized array architecture with larger aperture is proposed.Although some holes may exist in the DCA of the proposed array,they are distributed uniformly.Utilizing the partial continuity of the DCA,an extended covariance matrix can be constructed.Singular value decomposition(SVD)is used to obtain an extended signal sub-space,by which the direction-of-arrival(DOA)estimation algorithm for quasi-stationary signals is given.In order to eliminating angle ambiguity caused by the holes of DCA,the estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques(ESPRIT)is used to construct a matrix that includes all angle information.Utilizing this matrix,a secondary extended signal sub-space can be obtained.This signal sub-space is corresponding to a hole-free DCA.Then,dealing with the further extended signal sub-space by multiple signal classification(MUSIC)algorithm,the unambiguous DOAs of all incident signals can be estimated.Some simulation results are shown to prove the improved performance of proposed generalized array architecture in DOA estimation and the effectiveness of corresponding hole-repair algorithm in eliminating angle ambiguity.

A novel optimal data fusion algorithm and its application for the integrated navigation system of missile

For Inertial Navigation System(INS)/Celestial Navigation System(CNS)/Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)integrated navigation system of the missile,the performance of data fusion algorithms based on the Cubature Kalman Filter(CKF)is seriously degraded when there are non-Gaussian noise and process-modeling errors in the system model.Therefore,a novel method is proposed,which is called Optimal Data Fusion algorithm based on the Adaptive Fading maximum Correntropy generalized high-degree CKF(AFCCKF-ODF).First,the Adaptive Fading maximum Correntropy generalized high-degree CKF(AFCCKF)is proposed and used as the local filter for the INS/GNSS and INS/CNS subsystems to improve the robustness of local state estimation.Then,the local state estimation is fused based on the minimum variance principle and highdegree cubature criterion to get the globally optimal state.Finally,the experimental results verify that the proposed algorithm can significantly improve the robustness of the missile-borne INS/CNS/GNSS integrated navigation system to non-Gaussian noise and process modeling error and obtain the global optimal navigation information.