Robust Scheduling Filter Design for a Class of Nonlinear Stochastic Poisson Signal Systems

Nonlinear dynamic systems may suffer from both continuous Wiener noise and discontinuous Poisson noise. This paper studies a robust filter design for a class of nonlinear stochastic Poisson signal systems with external disturbances. Currently, there are no good filtering design methods to treat the discontinuous Poisson noise filter problem. Based on the Ito-Levy formula, a robust H_∞ filter design is proposed for nonlinear stochastic Poisson signal systems by solving a Hamilton-Jacobi inequality (HJI) for the robust filter design of a nonlinear stochastic Poisson signal system. However, such an HJI is difficult to solve. Hence, this study employs the Polytopic Linear Model(PLM) scheduling scheme to approximate this HJI by a set of linear matrix inequalities(LMIs) so that the H_∞ robust filter design problem for a nonlinear stochastic Poisson signal system can be simplified. The optimal H_∞ robust scheduling filter design problem for the nonlinear stochastic Poisson signal system is also discussed. Since the PLM interpolation method transforms the HJI-constrained optimization problem into an LMI-constrained optimization problem which can be efficiently solved using the LMI toolbox in MATLAB, an optimal filtering level γ* (the minimum value of the filtering error-to-noise ratio in a mean square sense) can be achieved. Finally, a simulation example of a robust trajectory estimation problem in an anti-tactical ballistic missile radar system with discontinuous random maneuvering jets is given to illustrate the design procedure and to confirm the estimation performance of the proposed H_∞ robust scheduling filter.