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Accurate estimation of noise parameters is critical for optimal filter performance, especially in systems where true noise parameter values are unknown or time-varying. This article presents a quaternion left-invariant extended Kalman…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Yash Pandey , Rahul Bhattacharyya , Yatindra Nath Singh

This paper presents three non-linear observers on three examples of engineering interest: a chemical reactor, a non-holonomic car, and an inertial navigation system. For each example, the design is based on physical symmetries. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 S. Bonnabel , Ph. Martin , P. Rouchon

An efficient way to control systems with unknown nonlinear dynamics is to find an appropriate embedding or representation for simplified approximation (e.g. linearization), which facilitates system identification and control synthesis.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xiaoyuan Cheng , Yiming Yang , Xiaohang Tang , Wei Jiang , Yukun Hu

The Kalman filter (KF) is an optimal linear state estimator for linear systems, and numerous extensions, including the extended Kalman filter (EKF), unscented Kalman filter (UKF), and cubature Kalman filter (CKF), have been developed for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Shida Jiang , Junzhe Shi , Scott Moura

In this paper we propose a new observer design technique for nonlinear systems. It combines the well-known Kazantzis-Kravaris-Luenberger observer and the recently introduced parameter estimation-based observer, which become special cases of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Bowen Yi , Romeo Ortega , Weidong Zhang

In the theory of quantum dynamical filtering, one of the biggest issues is that the underlying system dynamics represented by a quantum stochastic differential equation must be known exactly in order that the corresponding filter provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Naoki Yamamoto

This paper considers the observability of nonlinear systems from a Koopman operator theoretic perspective--and in particular--the effect of symmetry on observability. We first examine an infinite-dimensional linear system (constructed using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Afshin Mesbahi , Jingjing Bu , Mehran Mesbahi

Kalman filters and observers are two main classes of dynamic state estimation (DSE) routines. Power system DSE has been implemented by various Kalman filters, such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the unscented Kalman filter (UKF).…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Junjian Qi , Ahmad F. Taha , Jianhui Wang

The Koopman operator approach to the state estimation problem for nonlinear systems is a promising research area. The main goal of this paper is an attempt to provide a rigorous theoretical framework for this approach. In particular, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Judicaël Mohet , Alexandre Mauroy , Joseph J. Winkin

This paper proposes a new extended-state observer-based framework for adaptive nonlinear regulator design of a class of nonlinear systems, in the general nonequilibrium theory. By augmenting an extended-state observer with an internal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Lei Wang , Christopher M. Kellett

In this article, we propose a new filtering algorithm based in the Koopman operator, showing that a nonlinear filtering problem can be seen as an equivalent problem where the dynamics is infinite dimensional, but linear. Using Extended…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Diego Olguín , Axel Osses , Héctor Ramírez

Autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) are increasingly vital for marine science, offering robust platforms for underwater mapping and inspection. Accurate state estimation, particularly of vehicle pose, is paramount for precise seafloor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Derek Benham , Easton Potokar , Joshua G. Mangelson

This paper studies nonlinear observer design for rigid-body extended pose estimation using inertial measurements and generic exteroceptive sensing. The estimation problem is formulated as a cascade architecture that separates translational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Sifeddine Benahmed , Tarek Hamel , Soulaimane Berkane

Nonlinear dynamical systems with symmetries exhibit a rich variety of behaviors, including complex attractor-basin portraits and enhanced and suppressed bifurcations. Symmetry arguments provide a way to study these collective behaviors and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Anastasiya Salova , Jeffrey Emenheiser , Adam Rupe , James P. Crutchfield , Raissa M. D'Souza

Accurate estimation of the relative attitude and angular velocity between two rigid bodies is fundamental in aerospace applications such as spacecraft rendezvous and docking. In these scenarios, a chaser vehicle must determine the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Gil Serrano , Bruno J. Guerreiro , Pedro Lourenço , Rita Cunha

In various applications in the field of control engineering the estimation of the state variables of dynamic systems in the presence of unknown inputs plays an important role. Existing methods require the so-called observer matching…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Helmut Niederwieser , Markus Tranninger , Richard Seeber , Markus Reichhartinger

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 considers the design of nonlinear observers for invariant systems posed on finite-dimensional connected Lie groups with measurements generated by a transitive group action on an associated homogeneous space. We consider the case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-07 C. Lageman , J. Trumpf , R. Mahony

The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is a cornerstone of nonlinear state estimation, yet its performance is fundamentally limited by noise-model mismatch and linearization errors. We develop a residual-aware distributionally robust EKF that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Minhyuk Jang , Jungjin Lee , Astghik Hakobyan , Naira Hovakimyan , Insoon Yang

Respecting the geometry of the underlying system and exploiting its symmetry have been driving concepts in deriving modern geometric filters for inertial navigation systems (INSs). Despite their success, the explicit treatment of inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Alessandro Fornasier