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Indoor tracking and pose estimation, i.e., determining the position and orientation of a moving target, are increasingly important due to their numerous applications. While Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) provide high update rates, their…

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This paper is the second of a two-part series that discusses the implementation issues and test results of a robust Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) for power system dynamic state estimation with non-Gaussian synchrophasor measurement noise.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Junbo Zhao , Lamine Mili

Localization and tracking of a mobile node (MN) in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios, based on time of arrival (TOA) measurements, is considered in this work. To this end, we develop a constrained form of square root unscented Kalman…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

It is commonly expected that future fifth generation (5G) networks will be deployed with a high spatial density of access nodes (ANs) in order to meet the envisioned capacity requirements of the upcoming wireless networks. Densification is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Mike Koivisto , Mário Costa , Aki Hakkarainen , Kari Leppänen , Mikko Valkama

Many filters have been proposed in recent decades for the nonlinear state estimation problem. The linearization-based extended Kalman filter (EKF) is widely applied to nonlinear industrial systems. As EKF is limited in accuracy and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Chengling Fang , Jiang Liu , Songqing Ye , Ju Zhang

Accurate modeling is crucial in many engineering and scientific applications, yet obtaining a reliable process model for complex systems is often challenging. To address this challenge, we propose a novel framework, reservoir computing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Kumar Anurag , Kasra Azizi , Francesco Sorrentino , Wenbin Wan

Accurate estimation and prediction of trajectory is essential for the capture of any high speed target. In this paper, an extended Kalman filter (EKF) is used to track the target in the first loop of the trajectory to collect data points…

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes and typhoons, pose significant challenges to public safety and infrastructure. While government agencies rely on multi million dollar UAV systems for storm data collection and disaster response, smaller…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Ahmed A. Elgohary , Benjamin Gwinnell , Josh Augustine

This paper presents a novel methodology to auto-tune an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF). It involves using a Two-Stage Bayesian Optimisation (TSBO), based on a t-Student Process to optimise the process noise parameters of a UKF for vehicle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-28 A. Bertipaglia , B. Shyrokau , M. Alirezaei , R. Happee

In GNSS-denied underwater environments, individual unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) suffer from unbounded dead-reckoning drift, making collaborative navigation crucial for accurate state estimation. However, the severe communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shuyue Li , Miguel López-Benítez , Eng Gee Lim , Fei Ma , Qian Dong , Mengze Cao , Limin Yu , Xiaohui Qin

The sustainability of modern cities highly depends on efficient water distribution management, including effective pressure control and leak detection and localization. Accurate information about the network hydraulic state is therefore…

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We make modifications to the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) which bestow almost complete practical identifiability upon a lumped-parameter cardiovascular model with 10 parameters and 4 output observables - a highly non-linear, stiff problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Alex Thornton , Ian Halliday , Harry Saxton , Xu Xu

Unscented Kalman Filters (UKFs) have become popular in the research community. Most UKFs work only with Euclidean systems, but in many scenarios it is advantageous to consider systems with state-variables taking values on Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Henrique M. T. Menegaz , João Y. Ishihara , Hugo T. M. Kussaba

Several variations of the Kalman filter algorithm, such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the unscented Kalman filter (UKF), are widely used in science and engineering applications. In this paper, we introduce two algorithms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Wei Kang , Liang Xu

In the realm of Cyber-Physical System (CPS), accurately identifying attacks without detailed knowledge of the system's parameters remains a major challenge. When it comes to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), identifying the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Shuhao Bian , Milad Farsi , Nasser L. Azad , Chris Hobbs

The Kalman filter (KF) provides optimal recursive state estimates for linear-Gaussian systems and underpins applications in control, signal processing, and others. However, it is vulnerable to outliers in the measurements and process noise.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Alan Yang , Stephen Boyd

The most accurate version of the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) involves the construction of two ensembles. To reduce computational cost, however, UKF is often implemented without the second ensemble. This simplification comes at a price,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-22 Ankit Goel , Dennis S. Bernstein

Fast pose estimation (PE) is of vital importance for successful mission performance of agile autonomous robots. Global Positioning Systems such as GPS and GNSS have been typically used in fusion with Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for…

The unscented transformation (UT) is an efficient method to solve the state estimation problem for a non-linear dynamic system, utilizing a derivative-free higher-order approximation by approximating a Gaussian distribution rather than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Xi Liu , Badong Chen , Bin Xu , Zongze Wu , Paul Honeine