The Selection of Process Noise Covariance Q and Measurement Noise Covariance R on Kalman Filter

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 4342-4345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Yi Wei ◽  
Shu Jian Ye ◽  
Xu Guang Li ◽  
Mei Zhi Xie ◽  
Feng Yan Yi

At first, a seven degree of freedom dynamic model of tractor semi-trailer was established, and a simulation model with the Matlab/Simulink software was established too. Based on the model, a state estimator based on Kalman theory was designed, using easily measured parameters to estimate the parameters that are difficultly measured or have high measurement cost, after that, compared estimated values and simulation measurements and analyzed the influence with changes of process noise covariance Q and measurement noise covariance R.

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1126
Author(s):  
Zhentao Hu ◽  
Linlin Yang ◽  
Yong Jin ◽  
Han Wang ◽  
Shibo Yang

Assuming that the measurement and process noise covariances are known, the probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter is effective in real-time multi-target tracking; however, noise covariance is often unknown and time-varying for an actual scene. To solve this problem, a strong tracking PHD filter based on Variational Bayes (VB) approximation is proposed in this paper. The measurement noise covariance is described in the linear system by the inverse Wishart (IW) distribution. Then, the fading factor in the strong tracking principle uses the optimal measurement noise covariance at the previous moment to control the state prediction covariance in real-time. The Gaussian IW (GIW) joint distribution adopts the VB approximation to jointly return the measurement noise covariance and the target state covariance. The simulation results show that, compared with the traditional Gaussian mixture PHD (GM-PHD) and the VB-adaptive PHD, the proposed algorithm has higher tracking accuracy and stronger robustness in a more reasonable calculation time.


2011 ◽  
Vol 143-144 ◽  
pp. 577-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Guo Sheng Rui ◽  
Jun Miao

A new nonlinear filter method Cubature Kalman Filter (CKF) is improved for passive location with moving angle-measured sensors’ measurements.Firstly,it used Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) algorithm to estimate measurement noise covariance; And then the covariance of the procession noise and measurement noise is brought into the circle; Meanwhile,CKF is improved by the way of square root to keep its stability and positivity,and the results of track by Extend SCKF are compared with the results by Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) in the text;By the tracking results to the velocity of the target, Extend SCKF algorithm can not only track the target with unknown measurement noise but also improve the passive position precision remarkably as the same difficulty as UKF.


Author(s):  
Chenghao Shan ◽  
Weidong Zhou ◽  
Yefeng Yang ◽  
Zihao Jiang

Aiming at the problem that the performance of Adaptive Kalman filter estimation will be affected when the statistical characteristics of the process and measurement noise matrix are inaccurate and time-varying in the linear Gaussian state-space model, an algorithm of Multi-fading factor and update monitoring strategy adaptive Kalman filter based variational Bayesian is proposed. Inverse Wishart distribution is selected as the measurement noise model, the system state vector and measurement noise covariance matrix are estimated with the variational Bayesian method. The process noise covariance matrix is estimated by the maximum a posteriori principle, and the update monitoring strategy with adjustment factors is used to maintain the positive semi-definite of the updated matrix. The above optimal estimation results are introduced as time-varying parameters into the multiple fading factors to improve the estimation accuracy of the one-step state predicted covariance matrix. The application of the proposed algorithm in target tracking is simulated. The results show that compared with the current filters, the proposed filtering algorithm has better accuracy and convergence performance, and realizes the simultaneous estimation of inaccurate time-varying process and measurement noise covariance matrices.


2014 ◽  
Vol 577 ◽  
pp. 794-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Lin ◽  
Xi Lan Miao ◽  
Xiao Guang Qu

This paper presents the results of a quaternion based extend Kalman filter (EKF) and complementary filter for ArduPilotMega (APM) attitude estimation. In addition, a new method to get the measurement noise covariance matrix R is proposed. Experimental results show that the two algorithms can meet the requirements, but the complementary filter can yield better performance than EKF.


2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-568
Author(s):  
Samia Allaoui ◽  
Yahia Laamari ◽  
Kheireddine Chafaa ◽  
Salah Saad

In a sensorless control of PMSM based on Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), the correct selection of system and measurement noise covariance has a great influence on the estimation performances of the filter. In fact, it is extremely difficult to find their optimal values by trial and error method. Therefore, the main contribution of this work is to prove the efficiency of Biogeography-Based-Optimization (BBO) technique to obtain the optimal noise covariance matrices Q and R. The BBO and EKF combination gives a BBO-EKF algorithm, which allows to estimate all the state variables of PMSM drive particularly, the rotor position and speed. In this paper, three evolutionary algorithms namely Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), genetic algorithms (GAs) and BBO are used to get the best Q and R of EKF. Simulations tests performed in Matlab Simulink environment show excellent performance of BBO-EKF compared to GAs-EKF and PSO-EKF approaches either in resolution or in convergence speed.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 5808
Author(s):  
Dapeng Wang ◽  
Hai Zhang ◽  
Baoshuang Ge

In this paper, an innovative optimal information fusion methodology based on adaptive and robust unscented Kalman filter (UKF) for multi-sensor nonlinear stochastic systems is proposed. Based on the linear minimum variance criterion, this multi-sensor information fusion method has a two-layer architecture: at the first layer, a new adaptive UKF scheme for the time-varying noise covariance is developed and serves as a local filter to improve the adaptability together with the estimated measurement noise covariance by applying the redundant measurement noise covariance estimation, which is isolated from the state estimation; the second layer is the fusion structure to calculate the optimal matrix weights and gives the final optimal state estimations. Based on the hypothesis testing theory with the Mahalanobis distance, the new adaptive UKF scheme utilizes both the innovation and the residual sequences to adapt the process noise covariance timely. The results of the target tracking simulations indicate that the proposed method is effective under the condition of time-varying process-error and measurement noise covariance.


2013 ◽  
Vol 390 ◽  
pp. 500-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ushaq ◽  
Fang Jian Cheng ◽  
Jamshaid Ali

The Strapdown Inertial Navigation System (SINS) renders excellent attitude, position and velocity solutions on short term basis, but when used as stand-alone navigation system, its accuracy deteriorates with the passage of time. On the other hand GPS has long-standing stability with a consistent precisiongenerally having only bounded random errors in position and velocity. Integrated navigation system is used to augment the complementary features of SINS and GPS. In integrated navigation system external fixes for position and/or velocity and/or attitude are used to contain the growing errors of SINS. Kalman filter is generally used as integration tool for integrated navigation system. Kalman filter algorithm is based on the assumptions that the system model and the measurement models are linear and the system random errors and measurement random errors are Gaussian in nature expressed with fixed covariances. But in real navigation systems these assumptions are seldom fulfilled and hence Kalman filter renders unsatisfactory results. Adaptive Kalman filter provides the solution to the problem by adjusting the system noise covariance and measurement noise covariance in real time in the light of actual measurement errors or actual dynamics of thevehicle. In this paper an innovation and residual based adaption of measurement noise covariance and system noise covariance is presented. The presented scheme has been applied on an SINS/GPS Integrated Navigation Systemand it has been validated that the scheme provide significantly better results as compared to standard Kalman filter on occurrence slowly growing errors as well as excessive random errors in GPS measurements.


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