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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 Kalman filter (KF) is used in a variety of applications for computing the posterior distribution of latent states in a state space model. The model requires a linear relationship between states and observations. Extensions to the Kalman…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-31 Michael C. Burkhart , David M. Brandman , Carlos E. Vargas-Irwin , Matthew T. Harrison

This note presents a novel Bayesian attitude estimator with the matrix Fisher distribution on the special orthogonal group, which can smoothly accommodate both unit and non-unit vector measurements. The posterior attitude distribution is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Shijie Wang , Haichao Gui , Rui Zhong

Errors dynamics captures the evolution of the state errors between two distinct trajectories, that are governed by the same system rule but initiated or perturbed differently. In particular, state observer error dynamics analysis in matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Xinghan Li , Jianqi Chen , Han Zhang , Jieqiang Wei , Junfeng Wu

Particle filters (PFs) are recursive Monte Carlo algorithms for Bayesian tracking and prediction in state space models. This paper addresses continuous-discrete filtering problems, where the hidden state evolves as an It\^o stochastic…

Computation · Statistics 2026-04-24 Utku Erdogan , Gabriel J. Lord , Joaquin Miguez

Large-scale agent systems have foreseeable applications in the near future. Estimating their macroscopic density is critical for many density-based optimization and control tasks, such as sensor deployment and city traffic scheduling. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Tongjia Zheng , Qing Han , Hai Lin

Given a stationary state-space model that relates a sequence of hidden states and corresponding measurements or observations, Bayesian filtering provides a principled statistical framework for inferring the posterior distribution of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-01 Michael C. Burkhart

Clustering is a fundamental collective phenomenon in agent-based models (ABMs) of opinion dynamics. To study clustering in systems with co-evolving social and opinion variables, we derive stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE)…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-01 Sebastian Zimper , Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad , Federico Cornalba , Ana Djurdjevac

This paper revisits the problem of orientation estimation for rigid bodies through a novel framework based on scalar measurements. Unlike traditional vector-based methods, the proposed approach enables selective utilization of only the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hassan Alnahhal , Sifeddine Benahmed , Soulaimane Berkane , Tarel Hamel

In this paper, the spacecraft attitude estimation problem has been investigated making use of the concept of matrix Lie group. Through formulation of the attitude and gyroscope bias as elements of SE(3), the corresponding extended Kalman…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Lubin Chang

In the paper, we propose a higher-order geometry-preserving numerical method for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) evolving on the Lie groups SO(n) and SE(n). Most existing Lie group integrators rely on Magnus expansion of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Xi Wang , Victor Solo

This paper analyzes directional tracking in 2D with the extended Kalman filter on Lie groups (LG-EKF). The study stems from the problem of tracking objects moving in 2D Euclidean space, with the observer measuring direction only, thus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Ivan Markovic , Josip Cesic , Ivan Petrovic

This paper focuses on inverse problems to identify parameters by incorporating information from measurements. These generally ill-posed problems are formulated here in a probabilistic setting based on Bayes's theorem because it leads to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Jaroslav Vondřejc , Hermann G. Matthies

This thesis is mainly concerned with state-space approaches for solving deep (temporal) Gaussian process (DGP) regression problems. More specifically, we represent DGPs as hierarchically composed systems of stochastic differential equations…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-25 Zheng Zhao

Sequential Bayesian Filtering aims to estimate the current state distribution of a Hidden Markov Model, given the past observations. The problem is well-known to be intractable for most application domains, except in notable cases such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-16 Théophile Cantelobre , Carlo Ciliberto , Benjamin Guedj , Alessandro Rudi

Bayesian analysis of state-space models includes computing the posterior distribution of the system's parameters as well as filtering, smoothing, and predicting the system's latent states. When the latent states wander around $\mathbb{R}^n$…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-12-24 Jesse Windle , Carlos M. Carvalho

Climate change poses significant challenges for accurate climate modeling due to the complexity and variability of non-Gaussian climate systems. To address the complexities of non-Gaussian systems in climate modeling, this thesis proposes a…

Applications · Statistics 2024-06-28 Yunjin Tong

Many physical systems evolve on matrix Lie groups and mixture filtering designed for such manifolds represent an inevitable tool for challenging estimation problems. However, mixture filtering faces the issue of a constantly growing number…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Josip Cesic , Ivan Markovic , Ivan Petrovic

Accurate state estimation for robotic systems evolving on Lie group manifolds, such as legged robots, is a prerequisite for achieving agile control. However, this task is challenged by nonlinear observation models defined on curved…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tianyi Zhang , Wenhan Cao , Chang Liu , Yao Lyu , Shengbo Eben Li

Based on probability density evolution method (PDEM) and Bayes law, a new filter strategy is proposed, in which the prior probability of system state of interest is predicted by solving the general density evolution equation (GDEE), the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Yazhou Xu