Distributed square-root cubature Kalman filter for underwater cyber-physical systems with multiple fading measurements

In this article, we focus on the problem of the distributed nonlinear state estimation for a class of underwater cyber-physical systems with fading measurements. In this article, we propose a modified square-root cubature Kalman filter to tackle with the nonlinear system model. And the diffusion strategy is introduced in this paper to improve the system's estimation performance. To ease the internode communication cost, we propose an event-triggered mechanism to avoid the unnecessary information transmission. The corresponding esti-mation algorithm is also derived in this article. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can estimate the target's state accurately with less communication resources.