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Abstract | ||
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The unscented Kalman filter (UKF) has become a popular alternative to the extended Kalman filter (EKF) during the last decade. UKF propagates the so called sigma points by function evaluations using the unscented transformation (UT), and this is at first glance very different from the standard EKF algorithm which is based on a linearized model. The claimed advantages with UKF are that it propagates the first two moments of the posterior distribution and that it does not require gradients of the system model. We point out several less known links between EKF and UKF in terms of two conceptually different implementations of the Kalman filter: the standard one based on the discrete Riccati equation, and one based on a formula on conditional expectations that does not involve an explicit Riccati equation. First, it is shown that the sigma point function evaluations can be used in the classical EKF rather than an explicitly linearized model. Second, a less cited version of the EKF based on a second-order Taylor expansion is shown to be quite closely related to UKF. The different algorithms and results are illustrated with examples inspired by core observation models in target tracking and sensor network applications. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1109/TSP.2011.2172431 | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
different algorithm,classical ekf,core observation model,standard ekf algorithm,system model,conceptually different implementation,extended kalman filter,kalman filter,unscented kalman filter,linearized model,unscented kalman filters,control engineering,second order,covariance matrix,conditional expectation,riccati equation,sensor network,linear model,taylor series,transformations,taylor expansion,posterior distribution,system modeling,kalman filters | Mathematical optimization,Extended Kalman filter,Control theory,Kalman filter,Unscented transform,Posterior probability,Riccati equation,Covariance matrix,Invariant extended Kalman filter,Mathematics,Taylor series | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
60 | 2 | 1053-587X |
Citations | PageRank | References |
58 | 2.89 | 7 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fredrik Gustafsson | 1 | 2287 | 281.33 |
| Gustaf Hendeby | 2 | 216 | 21.37 |