To solve the problem of tracking an acoustic source in noise and reverberation environment, a new method is proposed in pursuit of higher accuracy. First, this paper improves the unscented particle filter, which can add the latest measurement information to optimize the proposal distribution. Then, the likelihood function is constructed by calculating the microphone arrays’ output energy in the...

Moving object tracking is one of the typical applications in wireless sensor network (WSN). As a result, a lot of important solutions have been proposed in the last decade, toward addressing different aspects of object tracking in WSN settings. This work describes an Unscented particle filter (UPF) based Moving Object Tracking algorithm, UMOT, in WSN settings, where the sensor nodes are cluster...

We present an articulated tracking system working with data from a single narrow baseline stereo camera. The use of stereo data allows for some depth disambiguation, a common issue in articulated tracking, which in turn yields likelihoods that are practically unimodal. While current state-of-the-art trackers utilize particle filters, our unimodal likelihood model allows us to use an unscented K...

Boost phase missile tracking is formulated as a nonlinear parameter estimation problem, initialized with an unscented transformation, and updated with a scaled unscented Kalman filter.

In the several past years, Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) havebecame basic algorithm for state-variables and parameters estimation of discrete nonlinear systems.The UKF has consistently outperformed for estimation. Sometimes least estimation error doesn't yieldwith UKF for the most nonlinear systems. In this paper, we use a new approach for a two variablestate no...

Kalman filter is a frequently used tool for linear state estimation due to its simplicity and optimality. It can further be used for fusion of information obtained from multiple sensors. Kalman filtering is also often applied to nonlinear systems. As the direct application of bayesian functional recursion is computationally not feasible, approaches commonly taken use either a local approximatio...

This paper develops an unscented grid-based filter and a smoother for accurate nonlinear modeling and analysis of time series. The filter uses unscented deterministic sampling during both the time and measurement updating phases, to approximate directly the distributions of the latent state variable. A complementary grid smoother is also made to enable computing of the likelihood. This helps us...

This paper investigates the application, design and implementation of unscented Kalman filter observer using the various scaling parameters for the sensorless speed control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor. The principles of unscented transformation and unscented Kalman filter are examined and their applications are explained. Typically the mapping transformation process is divided into ...

In order to improve the performance of target tracking and solve the defects of unscented Kalman filter, a target tracking algorithm based on improved unscented Kalman filter is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the fading factor is introduced into the filter based on strong tracking filter to avoid the filter divergence, and then wavelet transform is used to estimate the statistical characteris...

This paper addresses the problem of freeway traffic flow estimation. The freeway is considered as a network of components representing different freeway stretches called segments. The evolution of the traffic in a segment is modelled as a dynamic stochastic system, influenced by states of neighbour segments. Measurements are received only at boundaries between some segments and averaged within ...