This paper studies the effect of targeted observations on state and parameter estimates determined with Kalman filter data assimilation (DA) techniques. We first provide an analytical result demonstrating that targeting observations within the Kalman filter for a linear model can significantly reduce state estimation error as opposed to fixed or randomly located observations. We next conduct ob...

The development of Kalman filters designed for state estimation of the position and velocity of a spacecraft is attempted and their performance evaluated. Three Kalman Filters are developed, each with its unique characteristics: the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), the Robust Extended Kalman Filter (REKF) and the Adaptive Robust Extended Kalman Filter (AREKF). The three filters are implemented ass...

Obviously navigation is one of the most complicated issues in mobile robots. Intelligent algorithms are often used for error handling in robot navigation. This Paper deals with the problem of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) error handling by using Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) as an Expert Algorithms. Our focus is put on the field of mobile robot navigation in the 2D environments. The main chall...

This paper proposes a new adaptive extended Kalman filter (AEKF) for a class of nonlinear systems perturbed by noise which is not necessarily additive. The proposed filter is adaptive against the uncertainty in the process and measurement noise covariances. This is accomplished by deriving two recursive updating rules for the noise covariances, these rules are easy to implement and reduce the n...

In this project we consider the problem of estimating the state of an unstable system in presence of correlated losses using a Kalman Filter . This scenario arises in performing vehicle tracking or navigation over a wireless channel. Since wireless channels are inherently lossy in nature, it is possible for the Kalman estimator to lose some observations. We study the behavior of Kalman filter i...

The Kalman Filter (KF) is a powerful tool in the analysis of the evolution of a dynamical model in time. The filter provides with a flexible manner to obtain recursive estimation of the parameters, which are optimal in the mean square error sense. The properties of KF along with the simplicity of the derived equations make it valuable in the analysis of signals. In this chapter an overview of t...

A necessary ingredient of an ensemble Kalman filter is covariance inflation [1], used to control filter divergence and compensate for model error. There is an ongoing search for inflation tunings that can be learned adaptively. Early in the development of Kalman filtering, Mehra [2] enabled adaptivity in the context of linear dynamics with white noise model errors by showing how to estimate the...

Control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems, which estimates unavailable state variables, is considered. A new approach for robust tracking control problem of satellite for large rotational maneuvers is presented in this paper. The features of this approach include a strong algorithm to estimate attitude, based on discrete extended Kalman filter combined with a continuous extended Kalman ...

State estimation algorithm deals with recovering some desired state variables of a dynamic system from available noisy measurements, and estimation of the state variables is one of the fundamental and significant problems in control and signal processing areas, and many significant progresses have been made in this area. In 1940s, Wiener, the founder of the modern statistical estimation theory,...