Physics-driven quantized consensus for distributed diffusion source estimation using sensor networks

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Table 1 Normalized mean absolute errors (MAE) of centralized and distributed estimation algorithms. A single source field (M=1) with c ₁=1, τ ₁=1.213, ξ ₁=(0.1130,0.2210) is considered and the source parameters estimated from the spatiotemporal samples taken at \(\frac {1}{\Delta t} = 1\) Hz over T=10 s using N=45 sensors, with spatial sensing function families K=1 and K=3. The normalized MAE statistic has been computed with results from 1000 independent trials at different noise levels