Multivariate versus Univariate Sensor Selection for Spatial Field Estimation

Publisher:
IEEE
Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
2021 IEEE 16th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2021, 00, pp. 1187-1192
Issue Date:
2021-08-01
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The paper discusses the sensor selection problem in estimating spatial fields. It is demonstrated that selecting a subset of sensors depends on modelling spatial processes. It is first proposed to exploit Gaussian process (GP) to model a univariate spatial field and multivariate GP (MGP) to jointly represent multivariate spatial phenomena. A Matérn cross-covariance function is employed in the MGP model to guarantee its cross-covariance matrices to be positive semi-definite. We then consider two corresponding univariate and multivariate sensor selection problems in effectively monitoring multiple spatial random fields. The sensor selection approaches were implemented in the real-world experiments and their performances were compared. Difference of results obtained by the univariate and multivariate sensor selection techniques is insignificant; that is, either of the methods can be efficiently used in practice.
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