Title
An Iterative Nonlinear Filter Based on Posterior Distribution Approximation via Penalized Kullback-Leibler Divergence Minimization
Abstract
This letter deals with Gaussian approximation of complicated posterior distribution involved in the Bayesian paradigm for nonlinear dynamic systems. A general formulation for Gaussian approximation is first provided by equivalently representing posterior distribution as a Gaussian one with some constraint via embedding technique. In this work, it is specified as a penalized Kullback-Leibler divergence minimization problem. This minimization is solved for the expected Gaussian approximation by utilizing a pre-selected cubature rule and the conditional gradient method. Then, a novel iterative filter is developed for nonlinear dynamic systems. In addition, it is also proved to be optimal in linear cases and demonstrated to be effective through simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LSP.2022.3169439
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Minimization, Gaussian approximation, Nonlinear filters, Maximum likelihood detection, Kalman filters, Linear programming, Time measurement, Bayesian paradigm, Gaussian approximation, iterative filter, Kullback-Leibler divergence minimization
Journal
29
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1070-9908
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sanfeng Hu100.68
Liping Guo200.34
Jie Zhou32103190.17