Three-stage Kalman filter for state and fault estimation of linear stochastic systems with unknown inputs

The paper studies the problem of simultaneously estimating the state and the fault of linear stochastic discrete-time varying systems with unknown inputs. The fault and the unknown inputs affect both the state and the output. However, if the dynamical evolution models of the fault and the unknown inputs are available the filtering problem will be solved by the Optimal three-stage Kalman Filter (OThSKF). The OThSKF is obtained after decoupling the covariance matrices of the Augmented state Kalman Filter (ASKF) using a three-stage U–V transformation. Nevertheless, if the fault and the unknown inputs models are not perfectly known the Robust three-stage Kalman Filter (RThSKF) will be applied to give an unbiased minimum-variance estimation. Finally, a numerical example is given in order to illustrate the proposed filters.