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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

In this article, a robust ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) called MC-EnKF is proposed for nonlinear state-space model to deal with filtering problems with non-Gaussian observation noises. Our MC-EnKF is derived based on maximum correntropy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Yangtianze Tao , Jiayi Kang , Stephen Shing-Toung Yau

Recent developments in the realm of state estimation of stochastic dynamic systems in the presence of non-Gaussian noise have induced a new methodology called the maximum correntropy filtering. The filters designed under the maximum…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Maria V. Kulikova

We consider the problem of robust estimation involving filtering and smoothing for nonlinear state space models which are disturbed by heavy-tailed impulsive noises. To deal with heavy-tailed noises and improve the robustness of the…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-01 Hongwei Wang , Hongbin Li , Junyi Zuo , Wei Zhang , Heping Wang

To date most linear and nonlinear Kalman filters (KFs) have been developed under the Gaussian assumption and the well-known minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion. In order to improve the robustness with respect to impulsive (or…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Badong Chen , Lujuan Dang , Yuantao Gu , Nanning Zheng , Jose C. Prıncipe

Disturbance observers have been attracting continuing research efforts and are widely used in many applications. Among them, the Kalman filter-based disturbance observer is an attractive one since it estimates both the state and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Shilei Li , Dawei Shi , Yunjiang Lou , Wulin Zou , Ling Shi

As one of the most advanced variants in the correntropy family, the multi-kernel correntropy criterion demonstrates superior accuracy in handling non-Gaussian noise, particularly with multimodal distributions. However, current approaches…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Duc Viet Nguyen , Haiquan Zhao , Jinhui Hu , Xiaoli Li

The unscented transformation (UT) is an efficient method to solve the state estimation problem for a non-linear dynamic system, utilizing a derivative-free higher-order approximation by approximating a Gaussian distribution rather than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-29 Xi Liu , Badong Chen , Bin Xu , Zongze Wu , Paul Honeine

Conventional Kalman filtering (KF) approaches exhibit significant limitations in addressing nonlinear state estimation problems contaminated by non-Gaussian noise disturbances. To overcome these challenges, this work proposes a robust…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Jinhui Hu , Haiquan Zhao , Yi Peng

Kalman-type filtering techniques including cubature Kalman filter (CKF) does not work well in non-Gaussian environments, especially in the presence of outliers. To solve this problem, Huber's M-estimation based robust CKF (RCKF) is proposed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Yang Li , Jing Li , Junjian Qi , Liang Chen

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

This letter explores covariance matching-based adaptive robust cubature Kalman filter (CMRACKF). In this method, the innovation sequence is used to determine the covariance matrix of measurement noise that can overcome the limitation of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Mundla Narasimhappa , Sesham Srinu

This work proposes a resilient and adaptive state estimation framework for robots operating in perceptually-degraded environments. The approach, called Adaptive Maximum Correntropy Criterion Kalman Filtering (AMCCKF), is inherently robust…

Here we revisit the classic problem of linear quadratic estimation, i.e. estimating the trajectory of a linear dynamical system from noisy measurements. The celebrated Kalman filter gives an optimal estimator when the measurement noise is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-12 Sitan Chen , Frederic Koehler , Ankur Moitra , Morris Yau

The maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) methodology is recognized to be a robust filtering strategy with respect to outliers and shown to outperform the classical Kalman filter (KF) for estimation accuracy in the presence of non-Gaussian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Maria V. Kulikova

Designing optimal Bayes filters for nonlinear non-Gaussian systems is a challenging task. The main difficulties are: 1) representing complex beliefs, 2) handling non-Gaussian noise, and 3) marginalizing past states. To address these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sangli Teng , Harry Zhang , David Jin , Ashkan Jasour , Ram Vasudevan , Maani Ghaffari , Luca Carlone

We consider the robust filtering problem for a nonlinear state-space model with outliers in measurements. To improve the robustness of the traditional Kalman filtering algorithm, we propose in this work two robust filters based on mixture…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-29 Hongwei Wang , Wei Zhang , Junyi Zuo , Heping Wang

The Kalman filter is extensively used for state estimation for linear systems under Gaussian noise. When non-Gaussian L\'evy noise is present, the conventional Kalman filter may fail to be effective due to the fact that the non-Gaussian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Xu Sun , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li , Xiangjun Wang

The Kalman filter combines forecasts and new observations to obtain an estimation which is optimal in the sense of a minimum average quadratic error. The Kalman filter has two main restrictions: (i) the dynamical system is assumed linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Sornette , K. Ide

This paper continues the research devoted to the design of numerically stable square-root implementations for the maximum correntropy criterion Kalman filtering (MCC-KF). In contrast to the previously obtained results, here we reveal the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Maria V. Kulikova
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