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We consider two nonlinear state estimation problems in a setting where an extended Kalman filter receives measurements from two sets of sensors via two channels (2C). In the stochastic-2C problem, the channels drop measurements…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Vicu-Mihalis Maer , Zsofia Lendek , Stefan Pirje , Domagoj Tolic , Antun Djuras , Vicko Prkacin , Ivana Palunko , Lucian Busoniu

We derive symmetry preserving invariant extended Kalman filters (IEKF) on matrix Lie groups. These Kalman filters have an advantage over conventional extended Kalman filters as the error dynamics for such filters are independent of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Karmvir Singh Phogat , Dong Eui Chang

The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is both the historical algorithm for multi-sensor fusion and still state of the art in numerous industrial applications. However, it may prove inconsistent in the presence of unobservability under a group of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Martin Brossard , Axel Barrau , Silvère Bonnabel

The Geometrically Intrinsic Nonlinear Recursive Filter, or GI Filter, is designed to estimate an arbitrary continuous-time Markov diffusion process X subject to nonlinear discrete-time observations. The GI Filter is fundamentally different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. W. R. Darling

Kalman filtering has been traditionally applied in three application areas of estimation, state estimation, parameter estimation (a.k.a. model updating), and dual estimation. However, Kalman filter is often not sufficient when experimenting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Johnny Condori , Amin Maghareh , Shirley Dyke

This paper investigates the state estimation problem for unknown linear systems subject to both process and measurement noise. Based on a prior input-output trajectory sampled at a higher frequency and a prior state trajectory sampled at a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Peihu Duan , Tao Liu , Yu Xing , Karl Henrik Johansson

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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is an essential technique for navigation in autonomous driving. In tracking-by-detection systems, biases, false positives, and misses, which are referred to as outliers, are inevitable due to complex traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shiqi Liu , Wenhan Cao , Chang Liu , Tianyi Zhang , Shengbo Eben Li

The Kalman filter is a fundamental tool for state estimation in dynamical systems. While originally developed for linear Gaussian settings, it has been extended to nonlinear problems through approaches such as the extended and unscented…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Yuan Wu , Sicheng He

Optimal decision-making under partial observability requires reasoning about the uncertainty of the environment's hidden state. However, most reinforcement learning architectures handle partial observability with sequence models that have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Carlos E. Luis , Alessandro G. Bottero , Julia Vinogradska , Felix Berkenkamp , Jan Peters

The Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) is a ubiquitous tool for nonlinear state estimation; however, its performance is limited by the static parameterization of the Unscented Transform (UT). Conventional weighting schemes, governed by fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Kenan Majewski , Michał Modzelewski , Marcin Żugaj , Piotr Lichota

This work addresses the critical lack of precision in state estimation in the Kalman filter for 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) and the ongoing challenge of selecting the appropriate motion model. Existing literature commonly relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mohamed Nagy , Naoufel Werghi , Bilal Hassan , Jorge Dias , Majid Khonji

Chaos is ubiquitous in physical systems. The associated sensitivity to initial conditions is a significant obstacle in forecasting the weather and other geophysical fluid flows. Data assimilation is the process whereby the uncertainty in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-03 Alberto Carrassi , Marc Bocquet , Jonathan Demaeyer , Colin Grudzien , Patrick Raanes , Stephane Vannitsem

Many researchers are interested to use Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for state estimation of complex nonlinear dynamics with uncertainties which modeled with white noises. On the other hand behavior of the chaotic systems in time domain…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-20 Mozhgan Mombeini , Hamid Khaloozadeh

Although the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is applicable to nonlinear systems, it turns out that, for linear systems, UKF does not specialize to the classical Kalman filter. This situation suggests that it may be advantageous to modify UKF…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Ankit Goel , Dennis S. Bernstein

This paper investigates an approximation scheme of the optimal nonlinear Bayesian filter based on the Gaussian mixture representation of the state probability distribution function. The resulting filter is similar to the particle filter,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-30 Ibrahim Hoteit , Xiaodong Luo , Dinh-Tuan Pham

LiDAR odometry is a pivotal technology in the fields of autonomous driving and autonomous mobile robotics. However, most of the current works focus on nonlinear optimization methods, and still existing many challenges in using the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenlu Yu , Jie Xu , Chengwei Zhao , Lijun Zhao , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Mingming Bai , Lihua Xie

This paper introduces the ensemble directional Kalman filter (EnDKF), an ensemble-based Kalman filtering approach for pose tracking that jointly estimates an object's position and attitude using ideas from directional statistics. The EnDKF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tianlu Lu , Asif Sijan , Thomas Noh , Huaijin Chen , Andrey A. Popov

State estimation is critical to control systems, especially when the states cannot be directly measured. This paper presents an approximate optimal filter, which enables to use policy iteration technique to obtain the steady-state gain in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Kaiming Tang , Shengbo Eben Li , Yuming Yin , Yang Guan , Jingliang Duan , Wenhan Cao , Jie Li

Many estimation problems in aerospace navigation and robotics involve measurements that depend on prior states. A prominent example is odometry, which measures the relative change between states over time. Accurately handling these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tara Mina , Lindsey Marinello , John Christian