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With the help of Kalman-consensus filter and projection on the constrained set, we propose two random distributed estimation algorithm. The estimation of each agent is achieved by projecting the consensus estimate, which is obtained by virtue of random exchange information with its neighbors. The estimation error is shown to be bounded with probability one when the agents randomly take the measurement or communicate with their neighbors. 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