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The Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) has achieved great successes in data assimilation in atmospheric and oceanic sciences, but its failure in convergence to the right filtering distribution precludes its use for uncertainty quantification. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-13 Peiyi Zhang , Qifan Song , Faming Liang

This letter proposes a new approach for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) preintegration, a fundamental building block that can be leveraged in different optimization-based Inertial Navigation System (INS) localization solutions. Inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Giulio Delama , Alessandro Fornasier , Robert Mahony , Stephan Weiss

Modern autonomous navigation for unmanned ground vehicles relies on different estimators to fuse inertial sensors and GNSS measurements. However, the constant noise covariance matrices often struggle to account for dynamic real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gal Versano , Itzik Klein

One of core advantages of the SE2(3) Lie group framework for navigation modeling lies in the autonomy of error propagation. Current research on Lie group based extended Kalman filters has demonstrated that error propagation autonomy holds…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jiarui Cui , Maosong Wang , Wenqi Wu , Peiqi Li , Xianfei Pan

Accurate state estimation using low-cost MEMS (Micro Electro- Mechanical Systems) sensors present on Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) drones is a challenging problem. Most UAV systems use a combination of a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Sunsoo Kim , Vaishnav Tadiparthi , Raktim Bhattacharya

The ensemble Kalman filter is a well-known and celebrated data assimilation algorithm. It is of particular relevance as it used for high-dimensional problems, by updating an ensemble of particles through a sample mean and covariance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Neil K. Chada

With the recent advance of deep learning based object recognition and estimation, it is possible to consider object level SLAM where the pose of each object is estimated in the SLAM process. In this paper, based on a novel Lie group…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yang Song , Zhuqing Zhang , Jun Wu , Yue Wang , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

This work presents new results and understanding of the Ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) for inverse problems. In particular, using a Lagrangian dual perspective we show that EnKF can be derived from the sample average approximation (SAA) of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 C G Krishnanunni , Jonathan Wittmer , Tan Bui-Thanh , Quoc P. Nguyen

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

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a Monte Carlo based implementation of the Kalman filter (KF) for extremely high-dimensional, possibly nonlinear and non-Gaussian state estimation problems. Its ability to handle state dimensions in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-12 Michael Roth , Gustaf Hendeby , Carsten Fritsche , Fredrik Gustafsson

This paper presents an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) approach to localize a mobile robot with two quadrature encoders, a compass sensor, a laser range finder (LRF) and an omni-directional camera. The prediction step is performed by employing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-05 T. T. Hoang , P. M. Duong , N. T. T. Van , D. A. Viet , T. Q. Vinh

This paper introduces a Gaussian Bayesian Network-based Extended Kalman Filter (GBN-EKF) for non-linear state estimators on stiff and ill-conditioned continuous-discrete stochastic systems, with a further analysis on systems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Priyank Behera , C. Robert Kenley

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

This paper introduces an advanced Quaternion-based Unscented Kalman Filter (QUKF) for real-time, robust estimation of system states and external wrenches in assistive aerial payload transportation systems that engage in direct physical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Hussein Naser , Hashim A. Hashim , Mojtaba Ahmadi

Simulation-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment models have important applications in real-time traffic management and control. The efficacy of these systems rests on the ability to generate accurate estimates and predictions of traffic states,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Haizheng Zhang , Ravi Seshadri , A. Arun Prakash , Constantinos Antoniou , Francisco C. Pereira , Moshe Ben-Akiva

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is typically implemented using an optimization-based approach, with the factor graph often being employed due to its capability to seamlessly integrate residuals from both LiDAR and IMU measurements.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Naoki Akai , Takumi Nakao

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

We consider the problem of observer design for a nonholonomic car (more generally a wheeled robot) equipped with wheel speeds with unknown wheel radius, and whose position is measured via a GNSS antenna placed at an unknown position in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Paul Chauchat , Silvère Bonnabel , Axel Barrau

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

The Bootstrap Particle Filter (BPF) and the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) are two widely used methods for sequential Bayesian filtering: the BPF is asymptotically exact but can suffer from weight degeneracy, while the EnKF scales well in…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-28 Ilja Klebanov , Claudia Schillings , Dana Wrischnig