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The main contribution of this paper is an invariant extended Kalman filter (EKF) for visual inertial navigation systems (VINS). It is demonstrated that the conventional EKF based VINS is not invariant under the stochastic unobservable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Teng Zhang , Kanzhi Wu , Daobilige Su , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

Accurate estimation of the dynamic states of a synchronous machine (e.g., rotor s angle and speed) is essential in monitoring and controlling transient stability of a power system. It is well known that the covariance matrixes of process…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Shahrokh Akhlaghi , Ning Zhou , Zhenyu Huang

Goal: This paper presents an algorithm for accurately estimating pelvis, thigh, and shank kinematics during walking using only three wearable inertial sensors. Methods: The algorithm makes novel use of a constrained Kalman filter (CKF). The…

This paper presents a contact-aided inertial-kinematic floating base estimation for humanoid robots considering an evolution of the state and observations over matrix Lie groups. This is achieved through the application of a geometrically…

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 work presents a novel target-free extrinsic calibration algorithm for a 3D Lidar and an IMU pair using an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) which exploits the \textit{motion based calibration constraint} for state update. The steps include,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Subodh Mishra , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

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

Autonomous mobile robots operating in novel environments depend critically on accurate state estimation, often utilizing visual and inertial measurements. Recent work has shown that an invariant formulation of the extended Kalman filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Abdullah Altawaitan , Jason Stanley , Sambaran Ghosal , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov

Low-cost inertial measurement units (IMUs) are widely utilized in mobile robot localization due to their affordability and ease of integration. However, their complex, nonlinear, and time-varying noise characteristics often lead to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yaohua Liu , Qiao Xu , Binkai Ou

Dynamic operation of biological processes, such as anaerobic digestion (AD), requires reliable process monitoring to guarantee stable operating conditions at all times. Unscented Kalman filters (UKF) are an established tool for nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Simon Hellmann , Terrance Wilms , Stefan Streif , Sören Weinrich

In this paper we address the simultaneous collision detection and force estimation problem for quadrupedal locomotion using joint encoder information and the robot dynamics only. We design an interacting multiple-model Kalman filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ziyi Zhou , Stefano Di Cairano , Yebin Wang , Karl Berntorp

This paper presents a new optimal filter namely past observation-based extended Kalman filter for the problem of localization of Internet-based mobile robot in which the control input and the feedback measurement suffer from communication…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Manh Duong Phung , Thi Thanh Van Nguyen , Thuan Hoang Tran , Quang Vinh Tran

Inertial motion capture systems widely use low-cost IMUs to obtain the orientation of human body segments, but these sensors alone are unable to estimate link positions. Therefore, this research used a SLAM method in conjunction with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Mohammad Mahdi Azarbeik , Hamidreza Razavi , Kaveh Merat , Hassan Salarieh

High-frequency and accurate state estimation is crucial for biped robots. This paper presents a tightly-coupled LiDAR-Inertial-Kinematic Odometry (LIKO) for biped robot state estimation based on an iterated extended Kalman filter. Beyond…

Implementing dynamic locomotion behaviors on legged robots requires a high-quality state estimation module. Especially when the motion includes flight phases, state-of-the-art approaches fail to produce reliable estimation of the robot…

Kalman Filters (KF) are fundamental to real-time state estimation applications, including radar-based tracking systems used in modern driver assistance and safety technologies. In a linear dynamical system with Gaussian noise distributions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Arian Mehrfard , Bharanidhar Duraisamy , Stefan Haag , Florian Geiss

This article investigates the problem of data-driven state estimation for linear systems with both unknown system dynamics and noise covariances. We propose an Autocovariance Least-squares-based Data-driven Kalman Filter (ADKF), which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Suyang Hu , Xiaoxu Lyu , Peihu Duan , Dawei Shi , Ling Shi

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

This article examines state estimation in discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems with finite-dimensional states and infinite-dimensional measurements, motivated by real-world applications such as vision-based localization and tracking.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Maxwell M. Varley , Timothy L. Molloy , Girish N. Nair

We describe an application of the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) design methodology to the scan matching SLAM problem. We review the theoretical foundations of the IEKF and its practical interest of guaranteeing robustness to poor…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Martin Barczyk , Silvère Bonnabel , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette