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The extended Kalman filter (EKF) has been the industry standard for state estimation problems over the past sixty years. The Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) is a recent development of the EKF for the class of group-affine systems on…

The kinematics of many systems encountered in robotics, mechatronics, and avionics are naturally posed on homogeneous spaces; that is, their state lies in a smooth manifold equipped with a transitive Lie group symmetry. This paper proposes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Pieter van Goor , Tarek Hamel , Robert Mahony

This study presents an innovative hybrid Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that is resilient to environmental challenges and capable of dynamically assessing sensor reliability. Built upon a loosely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ufuk Asil , Efendi Nasibov

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) based on the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) relies on accurate extrinsic calibration between the radar and the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and is sensitive to disturbances, as large linearization errors can…

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is widely used for nonlinear and high-dimensional state estimation because it replaces complex covariance propagation with simple ensemble statistics. However, conventional EnKF implementations can become…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Shida Jiang , Shengyu Tao , Zihe Liu , Scott Moura

Recent advances in counter-adversarial systems have garnered significant research attention to inverse filtering from a Bayesian perspective. For example, interest in estimating the adversary's Kalman filter tracked estimate with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Himali Singh , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Kumar Vijay Mishra

While many works exploiting an existing Lie group structure have been proposed for state estimation, in particular the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF), few papers address the construction of a group structure that allows casting a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Axel Barrau , Silvere Bonnabel

This article introduces a new algorithm for nonlinear state estimation based on deterministic sigma point and EKF linearized framework for priori mean and covariance respectively. This method reduces the computation cost of UKF about 50%…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Milad Behvandi , Mohammad Azam Khosravi , Amir Abolfazl Suratgar

In this paper, we focus on developing an Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) for extended pose estimation for a noisy system with state equality constraints. We treat those constraints as noise-free pseudo-measurements. To this aim, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Sven Goffin , Silvère Bonnabel , Olivier Brüls , Pierre Sacré

Kalman filter-based algorithms are fundamental for mobile robots, as they provide a computationally efficient solution to the challenging problem of state estimation. However, they rely on two main assumptions that are difficult to satisfy…

Ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor localization provides centimeter-level accuracy and low latency, but its measurement reliability degrades severely under Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions, leading to meter-scale ranging errors and inconsistent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Kyeonghyun Yoo , Wooyong Jung , Namkyung Yoon , Sangmin Lee , Sanghong Kim , Hwangnam Kim

This paper deals with the implementation of the extended robust Kalman filter (ERKF) which was developed considering uncertainties in the parameter matrices of the underlying state-space model. A key contribution of this work is the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Gaurav Yengera , Roberto Inoue , Mundla Narasimhappa , Marco H. Terra

In this work, we explore the recent advances in equivariant filtering for inertial navigation systems to improve state estimation for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Traditional state-of-the-art estimation methods, e.g., the multiplicative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Martin Scheiber , Alessandro Fornasier , Christian Brommer , Stephan Weiss

Odometry estimation is crucial for every autonomous system requiring navigation in an unknown environment. In modern mobile robots, 3D LiDAR-inertial systems are often used for this task. By fusing LiDAR scans and IMU measurements, these…

Navigation plays a vital role in the ability of autonomous surface and underwater platforms to complete their tasks. Most navigation systems apply a fusion between inertial sensors and other external sensors, such as global navigation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Yaakov Libero , Itzik Klein

The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is a widely adopted method for sensor fusion in navigation applications. A crucial aspect of the EKF is the online determination of the process noise covariance matrix reflecting the model uncertainty. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nadav Cohen , Itzik Klein

This paper proposes a equivariant filtering (EqF) framework for the inertial-integrated state estimation problem. As the kinematic system of the inertial-integrated navigation can be naturally modeling on the matrix Lie group $SE_2(3)$, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yarong Luo , Chi Guo , Jingnan Liu

This paper proposes a novel approach to improve the performance of the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for the problem of mobile robot localization. A fuzzy logic system is employed to continuous-ly adjust the noise covariance matrices of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Thi Thanh Van Nguyen , Manh Duong Phung , Thuan Hoang Tran , Quang Vinh Tran

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a widely used methodology for state estimation in partial, noisily observed dynamical systems, and for parameter estimation in inverse problems. Despite its widespread use in the geophysical sciences,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Claudia Schillings , Andrew M. Stuart

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a data assimilation technique that uses an ensemble of models, updated with data, to track the time evolution of a usually non-linear system. It does so by using an empirical approximation to the…

Applications · Statistics 2021-03-12 Elizabeth Hou , Earl Lawrence , Alfred O. Hero