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Extended Kalman filter (EKF) does not guarantee consistent mean and covariance under linearization, even though it is the main framework for robotic localization. While Lie group improves the modeling of the state space in localization, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Tsang-Kai Chang , Shengkang Chen , Ankur Mehta

The extended Kalman filter (EKF) has been the industry standard for state estimation problems over the past sixty years. The classical formulation of the EKF is posed for nonlinear systems defined on global Euclidean spaces. The design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yixiao Ge , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

In this paper, we propose an Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) based Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) using multiple features in man-made environments. Conventional EKF-based VIO usually suffers from system inconsistency and angular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Tong Hua , Tao Li , Liang Pang , Guoqing Liu , Wencheng Xuanyuan , Chang Shu , Ling Pei

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

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

The Kalman Filter (KF) is a powerful mathematical tool widely used for state estimation in various domains, including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). This paper presents an in-depth introduction to the Kalman Filter and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Gyubeom Im

Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is an important data assimilation method for high dimensional geophysical systems. Efficient implementation of EnKF in practice often involves the localization technique, which updates each component using only…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Xin T. Tong

Localization in indoor environments is a technique which estimates the robot's pose by fusing data from onboard motion sensors with readings of the environment, in our case obtained by scan matching point clouds captured by a low-cost…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Martin Barczyk , Silvère Bonnabel , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette

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 a novel approach to address the inconsistency problem caused by observability mismatch in visual-inertial navigation systems (VINS). The key idea involves applying a linear time-varying transformation to the error-state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chungeng Tian , Ning Hao , Fenghua He

The fusion of camera sensor and inertial data is a leading method for ego-motion tracking in autonomous and smart devices. State estimation techniques that rely on non-linear filtering are a strong paradigm for solving the associated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Arno Solin , Rui Li , Andrea Pilzer

In many physical applications, the system's state varies with spatial variables as well as time. The state of such systems is modelled by partial differential equations and evolves on an infinite-dimensional space. Systems modelled by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Sepideh Afshar , Fabian Germ , Kirsten A. Morris

Filtering - the task of estimating the conditional distribution for states of a dynamical system given partial and noisy observations - is important in many areas of science and engineering, including weather and climate prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Eviatar Bach , Ricardo Baptista , Enoch Luk , Andrew Stuart

Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) are a key technology for autonomous vehicles applications. Recent advances in estimation and filter design for the INS problem have exploited geometry and symmetry to overcome limitations of the classical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Alessandro Fornasier , Yonhon Ng , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

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…

Recent developments of technology have enabled atomic spins as the most sensitive inertial and magnetic sensors. Atomic spin gyroscope (magnetometer) essentially outputs the estimate of the inertial rotation rate (magnetic filed) to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 Lijun Liu , Bo Qi , Shuming Cheng , Zairong Xi

A stochastic filter uses a series of measurements over time to produce estimates of unknown variables based on a dynamic model. For a quantum system, such an algorithm is provided by a quantum filter, which is also known as a stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Muhammad F. Emzir , Matthew J. Woolley , Ian R. Petersen

Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) has been a popular approach to localization a mobile robot. However, the performance of the EKF and the quality of the estimation depends on the correct a priori knowledge of process and measurement noise…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Ramazan Havangi , Mohammad Ali Nekoui , Mohammad Teshnehlab

This paper addresses the localization problem. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is employed to localize a unicycle-like mobile robot equipped with a laser range finder (LRF) sensor and an omni-directional camera. The LRF is used to scan the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Tran Hiep Dinh , Manh Duong Phung , Thuan Hoang Tran , Quang Vinh Tran

Autonomous mobile robots operating in novel environments depend critically on accurate state estimation, often utilizing visual and inertial measurements. Recent work has shown that an invariant formulation of the extended Kalman filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Abdullah Altawaitan , Jason Stanley , Sambaran Ghosal , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov