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Recently, the motion averaging method has been introduced as an effective means to solve the multi-view registration problem. This method aims to recover global motions from a set of relative motions, where the original method is sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jihua Zhu , Jie Hu , Huimin Lu , Badong Chen , Zhongyu Li

We formulate a recursive estimation problem for multiple dynamical systems coupled through a low dimensional stochastic input, and we propose an efficient sub-optimal solution. The suggested approach is an approximation of the Kalman filter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Leonid Pogorelyuk , Clarence W. Rowley , N. Jeremy Kasdin

Notwithstanding the popularity of conventional clustering algorithms such as K-means and probabilistic clustering, their clustering results are sensitive to the presence of outliers in the data. Even a few outliers can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-27 Pedro A. Forero , Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis

In this paper, we propose an approach to address the problems with ambiguity in tuning the process and observation noises for a discrete-time linear Kalman filter. Conventional approaches to tuning (e.g. using normalized estimation error…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Zhaozhong Chen , Christoffer Heckman , Simon Julier , Nisar Ahmed

In this paper, a novel robust output regulation control framework is proposed for the system subject to noise, modeled disturbance and unmodeled disturbance to seek tracking performance and robustness simultaneously. The output regulation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Zhicheng Zhang , Zhiqiang Zuo , Xiang Chen , Ying Tan , Yijing Wang

We present a Kalman smoothing framework based on modeling errors using the heavy tailed Student's t distribution, along with algorithms, convergence theory, open-source general implementation, and several important applications. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , James V. Burke , Gianluigi Pillonetto

The minimum error entropy (MEE) has been extensively used in unscented Kalman filter (UKF) to handle impulsive noises or abnormal measurement data in non-Gaussian systems. However, the MEE-UKF has poor numerical stability due to the inverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Boyu Tian , Haiquan Zhao

We exploit knowledge of linear substructure in the linear-regression Kalman filters (LRKFs) to simplify the problem of moment matching. The theoretical results yield quantifiable and significant computational speedups at no cost of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 M. Greiff , K. Berntorp , A. Robertsson

Multi-target tracking (MTT) serves as a cornerstone technology in information fusion, yet faces significant challenges in robustness and efficiency when dealing with model uncertainties, clutter interference, and target interactions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Ming Lei , Shufan Wu

Recent studies have demonstrated that correntropy is an efficient tool for analyzing higher-order statistical moments in nonGaussian noise environments. Although it has been used with complex data, some adaptations were then necessary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-16 João P. F. Guimarães , Aluisio I. R. Fontes , Joilson B. A. Rego , Allan de M. Martins

Using a perturbation technique, we derive a new approximate filtering and smoothing methodology generalizing along different directions several existing approaches to robust filtering based on the score and the Hessian matrix of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 Giuseppe Buccheri , Giacomo Bormetti , Fulvio Corsi , Fabrizio Lillo

In this work, we present a new perspective on the origin and interpretation of adaptive filters. By applying Bayesian principles of recursive inference from the state-space model and using a series of simplifications regarding the structure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Leszek Szczecinski , Jacob Benesty , Eduardo Vinicius Kuhn

In recent advances in solving the problem of transmission network expansion planning, the use of robust optimization techniques has been put forward, as an alternative to stochastic mathematical programming methods, to make the problem…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Roberto Minguez , Raquel Garcia-Bertrand

Since the innovation of the ubiquitous Kalman filter more than five decades back it is well known that to obtain the best possible estimates the tuning of its statistics $X_0$, $P_0$, $\Theta$, $R$ and $Q$ namely initial state and…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-28 M. R. Ananthasayanam , Shyam Mohan M , Naren Naik , R. M. O. Gemson

This paper is concerned with a generalized Kalman-Bucy filtering model and corresponding robust problem under model uncertainty. We find that this robust problem is equivalent to considering an estimate problem under some sublinear…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Shaolin Ji , Chuiliu Kong , Chuanfeng Sun

Parametric filters, such as the Extended Kalman Filter and the Unscented Kalman Filter, typically scale well with the dimensionality of the problem, but they are known to fail if the posterior state distribution cannot be closely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Manuel Wüthrich , Jeannette Bohg , Daniel Kappler , Claudia Pfreundt , Stefan Schaal

This paper investigates the robust output regulation problem of second-order nonlinear uncertain systems with an unknown exosystem. Instead of the adaptive control approach, this paper resorts to a robust control methodology to solve the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Maobin Lu , Martin Guay , Telema Harry , Shimin Wang , Jordan Cooper

Estimation of a dynamical system's latent state subject to sensor noise and model inaccuracies remains a critical yet difficult problem in robotics. While Kalman filters provide the optimal solution in the least squared sense for linear and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Fahira Afzal Maken , Fabio Ramos , Lionel Ott

We consider the problem of estimating the state transition matrix of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system, given access to multiple independent trajectories sampled from the system. Several recent papers have conducted a non-asymptotic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Vinay Kanakeri , Aritra Mitra

This work introduces an on-the-fly (i.e., online) linear unmixing method which is able to sequentially analyze spectral data acquired on a spectrum-by-spectrum basis. After deriving a sequential counterpart of the conventional linear mixing…