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Analytic solution of the exact Daum-Huang flow equation for particle filters

Systems and Control 2022-12-19 v4 Systems and Control Signal Processing

Abstract

State estimation for nonlinear systems, especially in high dimensions, is a generally intractable problem, despite the ever-increasing computing power. Efficient algorithms usually apply a finite-dimensional model for approximating the probability density of the state vector or treat the estimation problem numerically. In 2007 Daum and Huang introduced a novel particle filter approach that uses a homotopy-induced particle flow for the Bayesian update step. Multiple types of particle flows were derived since with different properties. The exact flow considered in this work is a first-order linear ordinary time-varying inhomogeneous differential equation for the particle motion. An analytic solution in the interval [0,1] is derived for the scalar measurement case, which enables significantly faster computation of the Bayesian update step for particle filters.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00089,
  title  = {Analytic solution of the exact Daum-Huang flow equation for particle filters},
  author = {Olivér Törő and Tamás Bécsi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00089},
  year   = {2022}
}