OGDM: An Observability Guaranteed Distributed Edge Sensing Method for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract

The new generation of industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPS) supported by the edge computing technology enables efficient distributed sensing under massive data volumes and frequent transmissions. Observability is essential to obtain good sensing performance, and most of existing sensing works directly assume that the system is observable. However, it is difficult to satisfy the assumption with the increasingly expanded network scale and dynamic scheduling of devices. To solve this problem, we propose an observability guaranteed distributed method (OGDM) for edge sensing with the cooperation of sensors and edge computing units (ECUs). We analyze the relationship between sensor scheduling and observability based on the network topology and graph signal processing (GSP) technology. In addition, we transform the observability condition into a convex form and take into account sensing error and energy consumption for optimization. Finally, our algorithm is applied to estimate the slab temperature in the hot rolling process. The effectiveness is verified by simulation results.