Differentially Private Set-Based Estimation Using Zonotopes
2023 (English)In: 2023 European Control Conference, ECC 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
For large-scale cyber-physical systems, the collaboration of spatially distributed sensors is often needed to perform the state estimation process. Privacy concerns naturally arise from disclosing sensitive measurement signals to a cloud estimator that predicts the system state. To solve this issue, we propose a differentially private set-based estimation protocol that preserves the privacy of the measurement signals. Compared to existing research, our approach achieves less privacy loss and utility loss using a numerically optimized truncated noise distribution. The proposed estimator is perturbed by weaker noise than the analytical approaches in the literature to guarantee the same level of privacy, therefore improving the estimation utility. Numerical and comparison experiments with truncated Laplace noise are presented to support our approach. Zonotopes, a less conservative form of set representation, are used to represent estimation sets, giving set operations a computational advantage. The privacy-preserving noise anonymizes the centers of these estimated zonotopes, concealing the precise positions of the estimated zonotopes.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023.
Keywords [en]
differential privacy, set-based estimation, truncated noise distribution, zonotopes
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-335064DOI: 10.23919/ECC57647.2023.10178269ISI: 001035589000154Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85166474762OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-335064DiVA, id: diva2:1793152
Conference
2023 European Control Conference, ECC 2023, Bucharest, Romania, Jun 13 2023 - Jun 16 2023
Note
Part of ISBN 9783907144084
QC 20230831
2023-08-312023-08-312024-03-18Bibliographically approved