Abstract:In this paper, we consider a mixed ensemble containing a mixture of cesium-type and hydrogen maser-type atomic clocks. For the mixed ensemble, the conventional Kalman filtering algorithm has certain limitations due to divergence of the error covariance matrix. To overcome these limitations, we obtain a Kalman filtering algorithm based on observable canonical decomposition that does not have any diverging terms. We use the estimates from the transformed Kalman filter to propose a time scale generation algorithm called explicit ensemble mean synchronization algorithm for the mixed ensemble. In this algorithm, we synchronize the time deviation of each clock from the ideal clock behavior to the unobservable ensemble mean of the phases where the weighting can be decided by the user. By regulating the free-running dynamics associated with the unobservable state, through choosing an appropriate weight vector, the frequency stability of the generated time scale or the synchronized time shared by the clocks is optimized over shorter (resp. longer) intervals, as measured by Hadamard variance. An illustrative example is given to demonstrate the efficiency of our algorithm.
| Subjects: | Systems and Control (eess.SY) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.24419 [eess.SY] |
| (or arXiv:2605.24419v1 [eess.SY] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.24419 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
From: Priyanka Dey [view email]
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