Questions tagged [kalman-filters]
The Kalman filter is a mathematical method using noisy measurements observed over time to produce values that tend to be closer to the true values of the measurements and their associated calculated values.
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Kalman Filtering with measurement latency
The timing involved in this problem is a little hard to explain, so I'll start with my specifics:
I'm developing a program that visualizes output (a bounding box) from a computer vision model on top ...
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Using a Kalman filter to clean acceleration data
I am collecting acceleration, gyroscope and magnetometer data in all 3 directions. I would like to filter noise from the accelerometer using a Kalman filter. I am not trying to esimate orientatoin or ...
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Deriving a Kalman Filter Equation for a Linear Gaussian Filtering Model with Non Zero Mean Noise
I am trying to answer an exercise question from the book Simo Sarkka - Bayesian Filtering and Smoothing.
The question is:
Does anyone know if there is a resource that has the solutions for this book?
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Colored noise and adjusting covariance matrix with change of frequency
Assume a signal sampled at 2Hz.
Assume it is a colored noise with known PSD.
The measurement equation to be used in a Kalman filter requires a covariance matrix.
If I want to sample at 9Hz (for ...
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Rotate measurements noise matrix (R)
i started working with kalman filter lately and i am trying to understand how to rotate the scales of the measurement noise matrix.
my scenario is a plane flying on 45 degrees (2d) and i know that the ...
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Kalman Filter: Difference between sensor input and control input
I recently saw a matlab sensor fusion example which combined IMU and GPS data for drone localization.
What was surprising about it was that the IMU was used to predict future behavior of the system as ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Kalman filter compared with FIR, IIR and low pass filter to filter data with noise?
It is known that the Kalman filter can filter the data with noise. I also find it works well after using it compared with FIR, low pass filter,etc. Now, I have a couple of questions about the ...
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The optimization problem of pulse signal filtering using Kalman filter
I'm trying to use a Kalman filter to process a pulse signal. My model is:
x= [x1,x2]$^T$
System model:
X$_k$ = x$_{k-1}$ + W$_{k-1}$ , so A = I$_{2×2}$, the identity matrix.
and Q=
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Should correlation diminish during Kalman smoothing phase
I am using a fixed-interval (RTS) 2nd-order linear Kalman smoother to filter/smooth skin marker data. The filter works very well. I am just trying to gain some more insight/comfort with how a Kalman ...
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Purpose of Extended Kalman Filter with Constant Minimum MSE Matrices
I work with a client that wants me to implement in real-time system an extended Kalman filter they have designed in Matlab. I reverse engineered their code to find out that the Minimum Prediction MSE ...
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Kalman Filter - combining data from sensors with different measurement rates, does one have a good source where i can get more information about it?
someone already wrote a question about the topic, and thats exactly what i am looking for but i need a source to get more information and to cite from
in my work i combine 2 kalman-filter for ...
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Derivation of the LMMSE (Linear Minimum Mean Squared Error) Estimate and the MMSE Under Gaussian Prior
I am learning estimation theory through Steven M. Kay - Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, Volume 1: Estimation Theory. In the ...
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What could be the optimal filter given this situation?
I am using a camera and a Deep Neural Network to predict one angle. This network received as input the frame, and calculates the mean and the variance associated to the prediction (which is basically ...
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Need help in debugging 2D Kalman filter?
I have implemented my own 2D kalman filter based on my understanding from this document.
I managed to track the trajectory properly, however the issue I am facing is the the track seems to be longer ...
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Interpret and adjust Kalman Filter velocity prediction
This is a copy of question I posted in StackOverflow, now I realize that this is better place to find help.
I use MATH.NET implementation of Kalman Filter
My example is similar to the example ...
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Consistency check of Kalman Filter
I am interested doing the consistency check of the Kalman filter. There are several measures like Posterior Cramer Rao Lower Bound (PCRLB), NIS (Normalised Innovation Squared), NEES(Normalized ...
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What is the name for a constant-heading Kalman filter model for vehicle tracking?
When applying Kalman filtering to estimate the position of a car, there are several different vehicle dynamics models that you could use.
One of the simplest is "constant velocity" or CV, ...
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Remove noise from distance calculated from accelerometer data
I got distance calculated from accelerometer raw datas using double integral accelerometer.I attached the image below.But it shows noise with it.Please help me to remove this noise.
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How to Improve the Kalman Filter for Tracking the Periodic Motion of a Car?
I have a quite typical Kalman filter to design. I really read a lot of articles about the design of this filter but the performances of my filter are still quite bad.
Here is my situation. I have a ...
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The Stability of the RLS Algorithm for Equalization
I am reading in the litterature that LMS is more stable than RLS.
But RLS is far more faster in convergence.
So my concern is how to be sure that my RLS algorithm will be stable when I am doing ...
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Discretize process noise in Kalman filter
Reading P. Andrews et al. I see that it is very common to do the following approximation of the process noise covariance matrix:
$$Q_{k} = G_{k-1}QG_{k-1}^{T}\Delta t$$
so that the propagation ...
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How to select states for a Kalman Filter
I'm a bit rusted on Kalman filters. I read about them about 10 years ago.
So here it goes
I have this equation which I'm aware is non-linear. This a simplified equation a DC-link capacitor with ...
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Kalman filtering for position using GPS,accelerometer and speed sensors
I am working on tracking a vehicle under tunnel when GPS is lost.
Whenever the vehicle in on the road, the GPS works fine and gives good accuracy but when the vehicle is under tunnel, the GPS is lost ...
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How to compute (in non adaptative way based on MMSE FIR) the feedback and feedword filter for DFE equalization?
System Model
Consider the single-input single-output (SISO) communication system in the figure below:
where the information bit stream is encoded and mapped such that the output of the encoder is a ...
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Estimating velocities from IMU Acceleration
I hope someone can help me to figure out the best way to solve my problem
I'm trying to drive a Cuboid on V-rep simulator with velocities
What I'm receiving is accelerations from an IMU (MPU9250 acc+...
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Kalman Filter | Why Shift the Belief Distribution
I am looking at the video lecture on Kalman Filter. I got some understanding that if the robot moves that we also shift the enviornment belief model accordingly (the same mean amount the robot moved). ...
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Tracking movement of audio speaker driver using images
I have a speaker emitting low-frequency sinusoidal wave and I have physically marked a curved edge on the speaker driver as shown in red in the image below, which I would like to track:
I detect the ...
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Reduce Jitter in Live Kalman Filter
I have a stream of data over time that I have fed into a Kalman filter. This data represents the vertical displacement in time of a vehicle's rearwheel as it travels over a bump in the road. The ...
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Application of UKF on quaternions
I'm trying to perform a state estimation on quaternions to predict the future orientation of a human head. The only sensor data I can obtain (from the AR headset) is the current orientation of the ...
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Noise converges to wrong value in Unscented Kalman Filter with augmented state
I have implemented UKF with augmented state (concatenating state variable with noise variables) on a classical toy example. Object state consist of position and velocity in 2D space. My measurements ...
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Kalman Filter | Difference Between Minimizing the Mean Square Error (MMSE) & Maximizing Likelihood Value in Bayesian Estimation
I am going through data assimilation slides on Multi Sensor Data Fusion by Hugh Durrant Whyte and it mentions:
The Kalman Filter, and indeed any mean-squared-error estimator, computes an estimate ...
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Separating Velocity and Position in a Kalman Filter
I have an implementation of Kalman filter for a tracking problem, with constant acceleration model. In this model:
My State Matrix is:
$$ X = [x, y , V_x, V_y, a_x, a_y];$$
My measurement Matrix is:
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Is it possible to detect or localize movement of objects using LPWA (or LPWAN) such as LoRa, DASH7, NB-FI?
Assume that there is a moving human in the room without any device (or receiver). Is it possible to detect or localize movement of objects using LPWA (or LPWAN) such as LoRa, DASH7, NB-FI by analyzing ...
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Fundamental questions about state-space and Kalman filters
I am a dsp guy, I only did a minimum of control theory back in university. While trying to grok state space analysis and (discrete time) regular Kalman filters, I am hitting a few questions that ...
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How to Reduce Phase Lag Caused by Kalman Filter
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I have been developing a system using a moving robot with a distance sensor against another robot. I want to control these robots by estimating relative velocity and acceleration derived ...
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how to get the location long and lat out of the raw measurements?
I'am making a research about GNSS
I used GNSS logger to collect measurements
but couldn't understand how these measurements turn into location of long and lat?
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Code implementation of Channel estimation based DFE Equalizer in matlab (or octave) without the the signal processing tool box
I want to implement a DFE in matlab without the signal processing toolbox:
I have two filters ( FeedForward and FeedBack) with taps length equal to 15.
I know the update equation of the LMS ...
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How to update Kalman Filter with n-th order state translation?
In Kalman Filter, the hidden state translation is defined by $X_t=F_tX_{t-1}+W_t$, where $X_t$ can be a vector or a single value. This is actually derived from Bayes filter, in which 1-th order markov ...
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why does DFE feedback filter matters?
I recently came across an article on the inventor of adaptative equalizer Robert Lucky, In this article : An Oral History by Robert Lucky (http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:...
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Can a Kalman Filter Be Applied Using Measurement-Space Dependent Sensors?
I'm currently attempting to apply a Kalman filter to track the angular position, velocity, and acceleration of a bike wheel, and I'm having a lot of trouble, so I want to check if I'm even applying ...
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How to set the measurement matrix of opencv kalman filter [OpenCV+Python]
I am working on a tracking application where I use the kalman filter to validate my current measurement of the position. I use the code from this question:
How to find the probability of Kalman filter ...
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Rotation matrix covariance to quaternion covariance in attitude estimation
Given a $3 \times 3$ rotation matrix $\mathbf{R}$ with an associated $3 \times 3$ covariance matrix $\mathbf{P}$ how do I compute the associated $4 \times 4$ covariance matrix $\mathbf{Q}$ of the ...
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How to build intuition for tuning a Kalman Filter?
I'm working on designing a Kalman Filter for more accurately predicting the position of a ultrawideband RFID tag in an indoor space. Before testing with live data, I've been playing with randomly ...
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Kalman fitler to estimate position from velocity measurement
I am using the Kalman filter to estimate the position from velocity measurements. I implemented the filter, but the position estimate is not well enough (large RMSE and Covariance value). Some time ...
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Choosing Right Type of Filter for time series data
I am working on a temperature time-series data which is very noisy. I am trying to measure true low and ...
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Kalman Filter: Effect on covariance from frauded errorneous sensor
I have recently started to learn about Kalman filters and I am right now simulating a very simple model in Simulink giving a noisy sinewave (position) and its derivative (speed). I have implemented/...
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Kalman filter using only location information
I have never used a Kalman filter. Is it possible to implement a Kalman filter using only location information?
In addition, if you can implement it, what kind of procedure should be used to program ...
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Kalman-Filter Estimate the position
I am quite new in this field and trying to learn Kalman-Filter but i am quite lost how to start my task.
This is the file description
Problem. I guess the state vector x must be the poistion of ...
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Kalman Filter System Model
I have multiple measurements to be fused and noise to be removed. As far as you know, can I use one reference measurement to be my system model?
Thanks
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Kalman Filter for position : introducing acceleration estimates
I want to estimate the position on a 3D environment by introducing only acceleration estimates. Is that possible? If I use the extended Kalman Filter and introduce these estimates will I have the ...
