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We consider the robust filtering problem for a state-space model with outliers in correlated measurements. We propose a new robust filtering framework to further improve the robustness of conventional robust filters. Specifically, the…

Applications · Statistics 2020-11-30 Hongwei Wang , Yuanyuan Liu , Wei Zhang , Junyi Zuo

We consider the problem of robust estimation involving filtering and smoothing for nonlinear state space models which are disturbed by heavy-tailed impulsive noises. To deal with heavy-tailed noises and improve the robustness of the…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-01 Hongwei Wang , Hongbin Li , Junyi Zuo , Wei Zhang , Heping Wang

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…

Conventional Kalman filtering (KF) approaches exhibit significant limitations in addressing nonlinear state estimation problems contaminated by non-Gaussian noise disturbances. To overcome these challenges, this work proposes a robust…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Jinhui Hu , Haiquan Zhao , Yi Peng

The Kalman filter provides an optimal estimation for a linear system with Gaussian noise. However when the noises are non-Gaussian in nature, its performance deteriorates rapidly. For non-Gaussian noises, maximum correntropy Kalman filter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Joydeb Saha , Shovan Bhaumik

The Kalman filter is ubiquitous for state space models because of its desirable statistical properties, ease of implementation, and generally good performance. However, it can perform poorly in the presence of outliers, or measurements with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Michael J. Walsh

Considering the problem of nonlinear and non-gaussian filtering of the graph signal, in this paper, a robust square root unscented Kalman filter based on graph signal processing is proposed. The algorithm uses a graph topology to generate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Jinhui Hu , Haiquan Zhao , Yi Peng

Outliers can contaminate the measurement process of many nonlinear systems, which can be caused by sensor errors, model uncertainties, change in ambient environment, data loss or malicious cyber attacks. When the extended Kalman filter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Huazhen Fang , Mulugeta A. Haile , Yebin Wang

Traditional Kalman filter (KF) is derived under the well-known minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion, which is optimal under Gaussian assumption. However, when the signals are non-Gaussian, especially when the system is disturbed by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-16 Badong Chen , Xi Liu , Haiquan Zhao , José C. Príncipe

A common situation in filtering where classical Kalman filtering does not perform particularly well is tracking in the presence of propagating outliers. This calls for robustness understood in a distributional sense, i.e.; we enlarge the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Peter Ruckdeschel , Bernhard Spangl , Daria Pupashenko

Robustness and adaptivity are two competing objectives in Kalman filters (KF). Robustness involves temporarily inflating prior estimates of noise covariances, while adaptivity updates prior beliefs by exploiting measurements. In practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shilei Li , Dawei Shi , Hao Yu , Ling Shi

As one of the most advanced variants in the correntropy family, the multi-kernel correntropy criterion demonstrates superior accuracy in handling non-Gaussian noise, particularly with multimodal distributions. However, current approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Duc Viet Nguyen , Haiquan Zhao , Jinhui Hu , Xiaoli Li

We take up optimality results for robust Kalman filtering from Ruckdeschel[2001,2010] where robustness is understood in a distributional sense, i.e.; we enlarge the distribution assumptions made in the ideal model by suitable neighborhoods,…

Computation · Statistics 2010-04-23 Peter Ruckdeschel

Recent developments in the realm of state estimation of stochastic dynamic systems in the presence of non-Gaussian noise have induced a new methodology called the maximum correntropy filtering. The filters designed under the maximum…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Maria V. Kulikova

In this paper, we propose CE-BASS, a particle mixture Kalman filter which is robust to both innovative and additive outliers, and able to fully capture multi-modality in the distribution of the hidden state. Furthermore, the particle…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-08 Alexander T. M. Fisch , Idris A. Eckley , P. Fearnhead

This paper introduces a novel Kalman filter framework designed to achieve robust state estimation under both process and measurement noise. Inspired by the Weighted Observation Likelihood Filter (WoLF), which provides robustness against…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-25 Weitao Liu

We present optimality results for robust Kalman filtering where robustness is understood in a distributional sense, i.e.; we enlarge the distribution assumptions made in the ideal model by suitable neighborhoods. This allows for outliers…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-21 Peter Ruckdeschel

This work presents a distributionally robust Kalman filter to address uncertainties in noise covariance matrices and predicted covariance estimates. We adopt a distributionally robust formulation using bicausal optimal transport to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Bingyan Han

Kalman-type filtering techniques including cubature Kalman filter (CKF) does not work well in non-Gaussian environments, especially in the presence of outliers. To solve this problem, Huber's M-estimation based robust CKF (RCKF) is proposed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Yang Li , Jing Li , Junjian Qi , Liang Chen

In this paper, state and noise covariance estimation problems for linear system with unknown multiplicative noise are considered. The measurement likelihood is modelled as a mixture of two Gaussian distributions and a Student's t…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Xingkai Yu , Ziyang Meng
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