构建可观察性工程框架,用信息结构解释传感系统的区分能力。
Observability Engineering: From Measurement to Information Generation in Active Sensing Systems
- 通过物理建模与对称性约化,建立动作驱动的感知信息结构。
- 不同硬件架构若生成相似商空间结构,感知能力相当;动作单一则易出现盲区。
- 适用于电磁传感等多类系统,帮助设计更鲁棒的感知架构。
本文提出一种面向交互式感知系统的四阶段可观察性工程框架。该框架整合物理建模、信息几何、对称性约化、跨系统对应关系与可观世界模型,形成统一工程视角:感知动作诱发的信息结构决定局部可区分性,而物理对称性定义了本质上无法区分的状态等价类。框架解释了现代感知系统中的多种现象:物理结构不同的系统若诱导相似的商空间信息结构,则具有相近感知能力;动作多样性不足会导致盲向、估计病态及虚假可辨识性。该框架提供了一种超越硬件描述的异构传感架构比较语言,并阐明了不同形式感知多样性对可区分性的贡献。框架主要基于高频电磁感知发展,几何光学近似提供了可解析的物理实现;但其核心不依赖几何光学本身,仅需动作索引的观测族和任务相关的可区分性度量。从这一视角看,可观察性并非传感器测量的被动属性,而是作用物理在物理与对称性约束下耦合后的工程成果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This article develops a four stage observability engineering framework for interaction driven sensing. The framework integrates physical modeling, information geometry, symmetry reduction, cross system correspondence, and observable world models into a unified engineering perspective, where sensing actions induce information structures that govern local distinguishability, while physical symmetries define equivalence classes of states that remain fundamentally indistinguishable. The proposed framework explains several common phenomena in modern sensing systems. Physically different architectures can exhibit comparable sensing capability when they induce similar quotient space information structures, whereas insufficient action diversity can lead to blind directions, ill conditioned estimation, and false identifiability. The framework also provides a quotient space language for comparing heterogeneous sensing architectures beyond hardware level descriptors, while clarifying how different forms of sensing diversity contribute to distinguishability. The framework is developed primarily through high frequency electromagnetic sensing, where geometric optics approximations provide an analytically interpretable physical realization. The broader observability engineering perspective, however, does not depend on geometric optics itself; it requires an action indexed observation family and a task relevant distinguishability measure. From this viewpoint, observability is not a passive property of sensor measurements alone, but an engineered outcome of action physics coupling under physical and symmetry constraints.
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