Title
A Novel Heavy-Tailed Mixture Distribution Based Robust Kalman Filter for Cooperative Localization
Abstract
In cooperative localization for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), the practical stochastic noise may be heavy-tailed, and nonstationary distributed because of acoustic speed variation, multipath effect of acoustic channel, and changeable underwater environment. To address such noise, a novel heavy-tailed mixture (HTM) distribution is first proposed in this article, and then expressed as a hierarchical Gaussian form by employing a categorical distributed auxiliary vector. Based on that, a novel HTM distribution based robust Kalman filter is proposed, where the one-step prediction, and measurement likelihood probability density functions are, respectively, modeled as an HTM distribution, and a Normal-Gamma-inverse Wishart distribution. The proposed filter is verified by a lake experiment about cooperative localization for AUVs. Compared with the cutting-edge filter, the proposed filter has been improved by 50.27% in localization error but no more than twice computational time is required.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TII.2020.3015001
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs),cooperative localization,heavy-tailed and nonstationary noises,Kalman filter (KF),variational Bayesian (VB)
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1551-3203
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingming Bai161.79
Yulong Huang218621.07
Yonggang Zhang38716.11
Feng Chen4175.08