Title
A new probability distribution for simultaneous representation of uncertain position and orientation
Abstract
This work proposes a novel way to represent uncertainty on the Lie group of rigid-body motions in the plane. This is achieved by using dual quaternions for representation of a planar rigid-body motion and proposing a probability distribution from the exponential family of distributions that inherently respects the underlying structure of the representation. This is particularly beneficial in scenarios involving strong measurement noise. A relationship between the newly proposed distributional model and the Bingham distribution is discussed. The presented results involve formulas for computation of the normalization constant, the mode, parameter estimation techniques, and a closed-form Bayesian measurement fusion.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
Information Fusion
Lie groups,motion estimation,parameter estimation,statistical distributions,Bingham distribution,Lie group,closed-form Bayesian measurement fusion,measurement noise,normalization constant,orientation representation,parameter estimation techniques,position representation,probability distribution,rigid-body motion reprsentation,uncertain orientation,uncertain position,uncertainty representation,Bingham distribution,Lie groups,Pose estimation,SE(2),directional statistics,dual quaternions,probability theory
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
3
0.46
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Igor Gilitschenski17813.89
Gerhard Kurz27813.41
Julier, S.J.31971192.03
Uwe D. Hanebeck459971.02