Kalman filter — 41 discussions

In Kalman filter mathematical treatment I have always read that a foundamental hypothesis is represented by the whiteness of the process noise. I have tried to do again the mathematical steps in the Kalman filter derivation but I can't see where such hypothesis is crucial. Could you help me...

Hi, I have a question about calculating the Jacobian matrices for the Extended Kalman filter. Question: If we have a system of the form: \begin{align*} x_{k+1} =f_k (x_k , u_k) + w_k \\ y_k = h_k (x_k , u_k ) +v_k \end{align*} where the state x_k comprises of the three variables p_1 ...

Hi, I am working on a kalman filter where my measurement equation involves "-g + v" , where g is in m/s^2 and v is velocity random walk given in m/s/sqrt(hr). Feels like a stupid question, but how can I transform the unit of velocity random walk so I can do the calculation correctly?

Dear Community, I want to use a Kalman- filter approach to calculate inclination angles (pitch and roll) obtained from accelerometer- and gyroscope- raw data. However the problem is that my sampling interval dt is not constant – it has a significant jitter instead. To investigate whether the...

It will sound a little bit stupid, but Ill ask anyways: I have two series systems, the second is an UKF (Uscented Kalman Filter). I was told to reduce the first system in order to that the UKF estimate less states. My question is: What exactly do the states represent? I mean, if I have a...

Hello, I am using a Kalman filter with a PI controller. The goal is to control a mirror to stabilize the position of a laser spot: I am sending a disturbance on the mirror and the PI sends command to the same mirror so the spot stays fix. With a camera I am recording the image of the laser and...

I have to filter data with Kalman filter. I know process error covariance Q and measurment error covariance R. Problem is with state transition matrix A, control matrix B and observation matrix H. First of all, data goes through this transfer function: ##W(s) = \frac{4s}{4s+1}## I can't get it...

Hi I'm working on a GPS/INS model. Now I developped the mecanization equations for the INS. I have a kalman filter which estimate the error state (position error with respect to north and east). it takes as an input the diffrence between GPS and INS and gives its estimation . I have...

Suppose we have a Kalman filter. We have a position sensor, for example GPS. We use the filter to estimate position. However in all examples I see higher derivatives in the state vector: speed, acceleration and sometimes jerk. There is no sensor that calculates these values directly, so they...

Hi I'm using accelerometer & horizontal gyroscope in order to replace GPS. Now, I'want to model the noise with first order markov process, to use it in kalman filter. I recorded measurement on all axes and computed auto-correlation. This picture represents auto-correlation on one of axes...

I have my state vector containing $$[X, Y, v_x, v_y, \theta, r, a_x, a_y, b_{\theta}]^T$$ and I have them related by $$dX = v_x cos \theta - v_y sin \theta\\ dY = v_x sin \theta + v_y cos \theta\\ dv_x = a_x\\ dv_y = a_y\\ d\theta = r\\ dr = 0\\ da_x = 0\\ da_y = 0\\ db_\theta = 0\\ $$ Now...

hi I found an article that shows how to use kalman filter to models error of accelerometer. they used markov process as stochastic error, then output of this model will be used as input of KALMAN filter. Now, I don't what to do. I'm not sure, but I think that I need to double integrate the...

I would like to find the distance that a vehicle travels using a Kalman filter. The vehicle is a car that travels the road between two positions. The vehicle has a GPS/barometer/accelerometer device that collects position data, which I converted from a longitude and latitude to a North, East...

I want to get the distance between points. I have a measurement of latitude, longitude and height from GPS/barometer systen (which I converted into north east down coordinates) and I have another measurement of the vehicle's velocity in the north east and down direction. To find the distance, I...

Hi first post hoping for some advise or guidance. Let's say I have GPS data on a robot every 10 Hz (every 0.1 second), I have accelerometer data every 40 Hz and steering wheel data every 80 Hz. I would like to use Kalman filter to produce estimates of where the robot is every 40 Hz given the...

Water level assumed constant. Static state model \(P_0 = 1000\), system noise \(Q = 0.0001\), measurement noise \(R = 0.1\). I want to use Kalman filtering to solve this problem. I know how to do this but I need to generate \(\mathbf{y} = y\) using Gaussian random noise. \(P_0\) is also call...

In this presentation, on page 7, they say due to noise \(y_1 = 0.9\). How or where did they get this value? It isn't an article just a beamer presentation so going from page 1 - 7 is quick and easy.

While trying to learn kalman filters, I see contradictory info for a simple gyro State Space representation. Please be patient with this post, I've put a fair bit of time trying to make it easy to follow and read! My goal is to understand how a moving IMU's orientation can be found. I'd...

Hi all I am using the Kalman Filter with an EM algorithm, (schumway and stoffer). From my understanding the log likelihood should monotonically increase. In some instances however I obtain a decrease in the log likelihood, What can I infer from this? Has anyone experience of these...

I am using a extended Kalman filter for the state estimation of a nonlinear system. The real system has accelerometers, so I need to include the acceleration of the system as part of my measurements with noise added (position and angular rates are other measurements). All of the Kalman...

Good day, i read a lot about the kalman filter and the extended kalman filter, but some things are still not clear to me. E.g. I have one question concerning the jacobian matrix of the measurement matrix h. I want to point out my problem with a concrete example: A vehicle is represented by...

URGENT: Lyapunov Equation for backward continuous-time Kalman Filter Hi, Consider a continuous Kalman filter running backward in time as desired in a "two-filter" smoother. What would be the form of Lyapunov equation for this backward-time filter? Given a system: dx/dt = Fx + Gv, and...

I am presently working with data fusion of redundant sensor data, basically trying to put together data from an IMU, a gyro and odometry... My question is whether the accuracy of the final state be greater than the accuracy of the most accurate sensor used in the ekf? Thanks in advance for...

Hi all, I have a standard local level model, but the disturbances are not independent: y_t=μ_t+ε_t, μ_t+1=μ_t+η_t, E(ε_t η_t) =/= 0 In order to derive the Kalman filter, I rewrite this model in state space form y_t=Z_t α_t+ε_t, ε_t~NID(0,H_t ), α_(t+1)=T_t α_t+R_t η_t...

Hi, I am currently learning and trying to build an extended kalman filter. However I am not sure how to created the measurement matrix. The measurement matrix H is described using formula 3.6 on page 18 of this document http://www.scribd.com/doc/54702247/UAV-Design My problem is that...

Hi, I am now using multiple parameters kalman filter to remove the systematic error of the output from the numerical weather prediction model. when applying kalman filter to the wind forecast, there is high error if pressure is included to be the predictors. I would like to know if there any...

Hey, I designed a kalman filter for my project. But how can I determine the correct values for Q and R? Thx!

I want to use a Kalman filter to estimate the motion of an object. However, the catch is, the measurements I have only tell me that the object is somewhere along a particular line segment. Typically Kalman filters require normally distributed measurements. I'm trying to work out how best to...

Hi, I am not sure if this is the right forum to post this. I am working on a Kalman Filter for battery state of discharge estimation during discharging process. I am using a Linearized Discrete Time Kalman Filter to estimate the State of Discharge/SOD (how much % of charge has been taken...

I trying to learn extended kalman filter. I am trying to simulate positions of point by angle mearsurments taken by an observer moving on a straight line. The EKF implementation does not converge. Below the MATLAB script clear all; close all; clc; %Generate staright line positions T=300...

Hello, Im working on estimation of inertial navigation system using kalman filtering. Can anyone help me finding the state space model of inertial navigation system used to estimate the states via kalman filter. An early response is needed.Thanks in advance.

hi all, m trying to implement sensor fusion of two three axis accelerometers data.can anyone help me in modelling this sensor and fusing for state estimation using EKF? thanks in advance.!

I am trying to implement a kalman for use in sensor data fusion, for 3 axis accelerometers, 3 axis gyros, and 3 axis magnetometers for a helicopter UAV project. The roll, pitch, and yaw need to be known. Gyros do a great job of doing this, but the problem is that they drift of the zero value...

Dear all, I'm trying to implement an Extended Kalman Filter based SLAM for orientation and angular rates. To ease up things I discarded the estimation of position and linear velocities. I'm using a quaternion based approach with translation vectors of 3D-points/landmarks as measurements...

Hi, I'm currently implementing a visual 3D model-based vehicle tracking system as my undergrad dissertation. I've implemented the vehicle localization algorithm and now have an estimate of the x, y location on the ground plane as well as the orientation angle of the vehicle which would like...

I need a tool to simulate 'Kalman Filter'. I know Matlab maybe do it, but it's not so convenient. Would you introduce me another one?

Hey everyone, I have a system that I know the x,y,z position and the alpha,beta,gamma euler rotation of an object in space at known intervals. I need to use a filter on this data to reduce the error of the measurements, and it would be nice to be able to predict future movement. I understand...

Dear all, I'm trying to implement an Extended Kalman Filter for position, velocity and orientation tracking of a rigid body and I am using quaternions for representing the orientation in the state vector. As this is the first time I have to work with a Kalman Filter, and the project is on a...

I've been asked to design a Kalman Filter where we can observe several states of a process (some of which being related to each other) and to use the Kalman filter to combine related observations to get a better estimate of each. Some texts I've been reading seem to indicate instead of making a...

Hi all, I am trying to estimate the future location of a mobile device and I was thinking of using the Kalman Filter to do this. Problem is I don't really know where to start. All the literature I have been reading gets much to advanced to quickly. What i have is basically, I am measuring...

Hi there, I'm wasn't sure whether I should post this question in the maths section or here, but since this technique is used a lot in aerospace I thought I'd try here first. I've grasped the idea of an ordinary Kalman Filter and created a program that tracks a noisy signal. However when...