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We propose a filter for piecewise affine state-space (PWASS) models. In each filtering recursion, the true filtering posterior distribution is a mixture of truncated normal distributions. The proposed filter approximates the mixture with a…

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Satellite dynamics and tracking remain important challenges in the context of space exploration and communication systems. Accurate state estimation is essential to maintain reliable orbital motion and system performance. This paper…

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This paper deals with the Tobit Kalman filtering (TKF) process when the measurements are correlated and censored. The case of interval censoring, i.e., the case of measurements which belong to some interval with given censoring limits, is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-15 Kostas Loumponias , Nicholas Vretos , George Tsaklidis , Petros Daras

The paper provides simple formulas of Bayesian filtering for the exact recursive computation of state conditional probability density functions given quantized innovations signal measurements of a linear stochastic system. This is a topic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Chun-Chia Huang , Robert R. Bitmead

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) represent a critical research domain within the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The distributed Kalman filter (DKF) has garnered significant attention as an information fusion method for WSNs. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Xuemei Mao , Gang Wang , Bei Peng , Jiacheng He , Kun Zhang , Song Gao , Jian Chen

In this paper, we focus on sensor placement in linear dynamic estimation, where the objective is to place a small number of sensors in a system of interdependent states so to design an estimator with a desired estimation performance. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Vasileios Tzoumas , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

Real-world measurement noise in applications like robotics is often correlated in time, but we typically assume i.i.d. Gaussian noise for filtering. We propose general Gaussian Processes as a non-parametric model for correlated measurement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-25 Vince Kurtz , Hai Lin

We derive a novel, provably robust, and closed-form Bayesian update rule for online filtering in state-space models in the presence of outliers and misspecified measurement models. Our method combines generalised Bayesian inference with…

We study state estimation for discrete-time linear stochastic systems under distributional ambiguity in the initial state, process noise, and measurement noise. We propose a noise-centric distributionally robust Kalman filter (DRKF) based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Minhyuk Jang , Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

State estimation of dynamical systems from noisy observations is a fundamental task in many applications. It is commonly addressed using the linear Kalman filter (KF), whose performance can significantly degrade in the presence of outliers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Shunit Truzman , Guy Revach , Nir Shlezinger , Itzik Klein

Indoor localization is critical for IoT applications, yet challenges such as non-Gaussian noise, environmental interference, and measurement outliers hinder the robustness of traditional methods. Existing approaches, including Kalman…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zhiyi Zhou , Dongzhuo Liu , Songtao Guo , Yuanyuan Yang

Nonlinear/non-Gaussian filtering has broad applications in many areas of life sciences where either the dynamic is nonlinear and/or the probability density function of uncertain state is non-Gaussian. In such problems, the accuracy of the…

Computation · Statistics 2012-08-02 Hatef Monajemi , Peter K. Kitanidis

Novel experimental modalities acquire spatially resolved velocity measurements for steady state and transient flows which are of interest for engineering and biological applications. One of the drawbacks of such high resolution velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 H. Egger , T. Seitz , C. Tropea

Filtering and smoothing with a generalised representation of uncertainty is considered. Here, uncertainty is represented using a class of outer measures. It is shown how this representation of uncertainty can be propagated using…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-02 Jeremie Houssineau , Adrian N. Bishop

In this work we tackle the problem of estimating the density $f_X$ of a random variable $X$ by successive smoothing, such that the smoothed random variable $Y$ fulfills $(\partial_t - \Delta_1)f_Y(\,\cdot\,, t) = 0$, $f_Y(\,\cdot\,, 0) =…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Martin Zach , Thomas Pock , Erich Kobler , Antonin Chambolle

Smoothing and filtering two-dimensional sequences are fundamental tasks in fields such as computer vision. Conventional filtering algorithms often rely on the selection of the filtering window, limiting their applicability in certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xufeng Chen , Liang Yan , Xiaoshan Gao

In this paper, we present the optimization formulation of the Kalman filtering and smoothing problems, and use this perspective to develop a variety of extensions and applications. We first formulate classic Kalman smoothing as a least…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , James V. Burke , Gianluigi Pillonetto

Due to the limitations of the robotic sensors, during a robotic manipulation task, the acquisition of the object's state can be unreliable and noisy. Combining an accurate model of multi-body dynamic system with Bayesian filtering methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuai Li , Siwei Lyu , Jeff Trinkle

Learning multiple tasks sequentially requires neural networks to balance retaining knowledge, yet being flexible enough to adapt to new tasks. Regularizing network parameters is a common approach, but it rarely incorporates prior knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Joanna Sliwa , Frank Schneider , Nathanael Bosch , Agustinus Kristiadi , Philipp Hennig

This paper develops a new nonlinear filter, called Moment-based Kalman Filter (MKF), using the exact moment propagation method. Existing state estimation methods use linearization techniques or sampling points to compute approximate values…

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