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The Kalman filter provides an optimal estimation for a linear system with Gaussian noise. However when the noises are non-Gaussian in nature, its performance deteriorates rapidly. For non-Gaussian noises, maximum correntropy Kalman filter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Joydeb Saha , Shovan Bhaumik

This study considers the data assimilation problem in coupled systems, which consists of two components (sub-systems) interacting with each other through certain coupling terms. A straightforward way to tackle the assimilation problem in…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Xiaodong Luo , Ibrahim Hoteit

We formulate the discrete-time inverse optimal control problem of inferring unknown parameters in the objective function of an optimal control problem from measurements of optimal states and controls as a nonlinear filtering problem. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Tian Zhao , Timothy L. Molloy

We study distributed filtering for a class of uncertain systems over corrupted communication channels. We propose a distributed robust Kalman filter with stochastic gains, through which upper bounds of the conditional mean square estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Xingkang He , Karl Henrik Johansson , Haitao Fang

The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) has become a standard methodology for state estimation in high-dimensional systems, yet its various stochastic and deterministic formulations often appear conceptually disconnected. In this paper, a unified…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Jin Won Kim

Traditional Kalman filter (KF) is derived under the well-known minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion, which is optimal under Gaussian assumption. However, when the signals are non-Gaussian, especially when the system is disturbed by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-16 Badong Chen , Xi Liu , Haiquan Zhao , José C. Príncipe

This paper presents an implementation and evaluation of a Distributed Kalman--Consensus Filter (DKCF) for Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) in mobile robot networks operating under partial observability and heterogeneous localization uncertainty.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Niusha Khosravi , Rodrigo Ventura , Meysam Basiri

The problem of multisensor multitarget state estimation in the presence of constant but unknown sensor biases is investigated. The classical approach to this problem is to augment the state vector to include the states of all the targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Jianxin Yi , Xianrong Wan , Deshi Li

The paper deals with decentralized state estimation for spatially distributed systems described by linear partial differential equations from discrete in-space-and-time noisy measurements provided by sensors deployed over the spatial domain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Nicola Forti , Stefano Selleri , Giuseppe Pelosi

This paper is concerned with the problem of distributed Kalman filtering in a network of interconnected subsystems with distributed control protocols. We consider networks, which can be either homogeneous or heterogeneous, of linear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Damian Marelli , Mohsen Zamani , Minyue Fu

Recently the primal-dual method of multipliers (PDMM), a novel distributed optimization method, was proposed for solving a general class of decomposable convex optimizations over graphic models. In this work, we first study the convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Guoqiang Zhang , W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Richard Heusdens

The Kalman filter (KF) provides optimal recursive state estimates for linear-Gaussian systems and underpins applications in control, signal processing, and others. However, it is vulnerable to outliers in the measurements and process noise.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Alan Yang , Stephen Boyd

Distributed Kalman filter approaches based on the maximum correntropy criterion have recently demonstrated superior state estimation performance to that of conventional distributed Kalman filters for wireless sensor networks in the presence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Jiacheng He , Gang Wang , Xuemei Mao , Song Gao , Bei Peng

We develop a new consensus-based distributed algorithm for solving learning problems with feature partitioning and non-smooth convex objective functions. Such learning problems are not separable, i.e., the associated objective functions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Cristiano Gratton , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Reza Arablouei , Stefan Werner

This work presents a distributionally robust Kalman filter to address uncertainties in noise covariance matrices and predicted covariance estimates. We adopt a distributionally robust formulation using bicausal optimal transport to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Bingyan Han

In this paper, the information-weighted consensus filter (ICF) with partial information exchange is proposed to reduce the bandwidth of the signals transmitted between the sensor nodes and guarantee its convergence to the centralized Kalman…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Byoung-Ju Jeon , Shaoming He

The frequency-domain Kalman filter (FKF) has been utilized in many audio signal processing applications due to its fast convergence speed and robustness. However, the performance of the FKF in under-modeling situations has not been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Wenzhi Fan , Kai Chen , Jing Lu , Jiancheng Tao

This article explores distributed convex optimization with globally-coupled constraints, where the objective function is a general nonsmooth convex function, the constraints include nonlinear inequalities and affine equalities, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Zixuan Liu , Xuyang Wu , Dandan Wang , Jie Lu

In conventional distributed Kalman filtering, employing diffusion strategies, each node transmits its state estimate to all its direct neighbors in each iteration. In this paper we propose a partial diffusion Kalman filter (PDKF) for state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Vahid Vahidpour , Amir Rastegarnia , Azam Khalili , Wael Bazzi , Saeid Sanei

Optimal transport has been used extensively in resource matching to promote the efficiency of resources usages by matching sources to targets. However, it requires a significant amount of computations and storage spaces for large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Rui Zhang , Quanyan Zhu