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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…

This paper illustrates the way for estimating position and orientation of a vehicle with an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). For this purpose a non-linear model is designed and an adaptive calculation of measurement noise covariance matrix is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-26 Reiner Marchthaler

In this paper, the problem of pilot beam pattern design for channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems with a large number of transmit antennas at the base station is considered, and a new algorithm for pilot beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Song Noh , Michael D. Zoltowski , Youngchul Sung , David J. Love

Attitude estimation is crucial in aerospace engineering, robotics, and virtual reality applications, but faces difficulties due to nonlinear system dynamics and sensor limitations. This paper addresses the challenge of attitude estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Yash Pandey , Rahul Bhattacharyya , Yatindra Nath Singh

This paper proposes a method for calibrating control parameters. Examples of such control parameters are gains of PID controllers, weights of a cost function for optimal control, filter coefficients, the sliding surface of a sliding mode…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Marcel Menner , Karl Berntorp , Stefano Di Cairano

Inference and simulation in the context of high-dimensional dynamical systems remain computationally challenging problems. Some form of dimensionality reduction is required to make the problem tractable in general. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-04 Jonathan Schmidt , Philipp Hennig , Jörg Nick , Filip Tronarp

We consider the problem of randomly choosing the sensors of a linear time-invariant dynamical system subject to process and measurement noise. We sample the sensors independently and from the same distribution. We measure the performance of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Christopher I. Calle , Shaunak D. Bopardikar

We propose a new extension of Kalman filtering for continuous-discrete systems with nonlinear state-space models that we name as the level set Kalman filter (LSKF). The LSKF assumes the probability distribution can be approximated as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Ningyuan Wang , Daniel B. Forger

Kalman filtering and smoothing are the foundational mechanisms for efficient inference in Gauss-Markov models. However, their time and memory complexities scale prohibitively with the size of the state space. This is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Marvin Pförtner , Jonathan Wenger , Jon Cockayne , Philipp Hennig

The unscented Kalman filter is a nonlinear estimation algorithm commonly used in navigation applications. The prediction of the mean and covariance matrix is crucial to the stable behavior of the filter. This prediction is done by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Amit Levy , Itzik Klein

The main contribution of this paper is a high frequency, low-complexity, on-board visual-inertial odometry system for quadrotor micro air vehicles. The system consists of an extended Kalman filter (EKF) based state estimation algorithm that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Dinuka Abeywardena , Shoudong Huang , Ben Barnes , Gamini Dissanayake , Sarath Kodagoda

This short note gives a new framework for dealing with nonlinear sampled-data systems. We introduce a new idea of lifting, which is well known for linear systems, but not successfully generalized to nonlinear systems. This paper introduces…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yutaka Yamamoto , Kaoru Yamamoto

The classic, two-component, crust-superfluid model of a neutron star can be formulated as a noise-driven, linear dynamical system, in which the angular velocities of the crust and superfluid are tracked using a Kalman filter applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Patrick M. Meyers , Nicholas J. O'Neill , Andrew Melatos , Robin J. Evans

This letter proposes a reactive navigation strategy for recovering the altitude, translational velocity and orientation of Micro Aerial Vehicles. The main contribution lies in the direct and tight fusion of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Shangkun Zhong , Pakpong Chirarattananon

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Yutaka Shimizu , Ashkan Jasour , Maani Ghaffari , Shinpei Kato

A sequential estimator based on the Ensemble Kalman Filter for Data Assimilation of fluid flows is presented in this research work. The main feature of this estimator is that the Kalman filter update, which relies on the determination of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Gabriel Moldovan , Guillame Lehnasch , Laurent Cordier , Marcello Meldi

In this paper, we derive a new Kalman filter with probabilistic data association between measurements and states. We formulate a variational inference problem to approximate the posterior density of the state conditioned on the measurement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Hanwen Cao , George J. Pappas , Nikolay Atanasov

This work introduces an algorithm for state estimation on manifolds within the framework of the Kalman filter. Its primary objective is to provide a methodology enabling the evaluation of the precision of existing Kalman filter variants…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Svyatoslav Covanov , Cedric Pradalier

This paper introduces an input-output bilinear Koopman realization with an optimization algorithm of lifting functions. For nonlinear systems with inputs, Koopman-based modeling is effective because the Koopman operator enables a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Shuichi Yahagi , Ansei Yonezawa , Heisei Yonezawa , Hiroki Seto , Itsuro Kajiwara

We develop a novel lifting technique for nonlinear system identification based on the framework of the Koopman operator. The key idea is to identify the linear (infinitedimensional) Koopman operator in the lifted space of observables,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Alexandre Mauroy , Jorge Goncalves