Measurement outlier-Resistant target tracking in wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting constraints

In this paper, the measurement outlier-resistant target tracking problem is investigated in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with energy harvesting constraints. Each WSN node can acquire energy stochastically from surroundings. No matter whether the WSN node acquires energy or not, the WSN node's measurement can be transmitted if the energy amount of the WSN node is greater than zero. In such a case, the sensor energy-induced missing measurement (SE-IMM) phenomenon may occur. The objective of this paper is to develop a solution for the considered target tracking problem by devising the filter including a saturation constraint such that, in the simultaneous presence of outliers and the SE-IMM phenomenon, the tracking performance can meet the given performance index. Firstly, the relation between the energy level of the WSN node and its probability distribution is computed recursively. Then, an upper bound of the tracking error covariance is derived which is minimized by appropriately choos