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Comparative Study of Tracking Application Using Extended Kalman Filter and Unscented Kalman Filter
Kalman Filter is an estimator i.e. used for estimating the instantaneous state of a dynamic system perturbed by white noiseby using measurements related to the state but corrupted by white noise. The Kalman filter operates on estimating states by using recursive time and measurement updates over time. The most immediate applications of Kalman Filter are related to Tracking, be it tracking paths of missile ships & aircrafts or tracking the pattern of images or tracking an object or tracking of maximum power point or tracking the prices of various commodities or tracking of stock market. In other words it is used to control a dynamic system. For these applications, it is not always possible or desirable to measure every variable that one wants to control and Kalman filter provides a mean for inferring the missing information from noisy environments.
Design and Application of an Extended Kalman Filter in a Flight Control System Development
Infotech@Aerospace 2011, 2011
Considering the noisy and biased nature of UAS sensors, particularly airflow angles and speed sensors and also the inherent slow update of INS; two extended Kalman filter were developed to improve these deficiencies. The first one designated to improve the airflow angles and speed measurements, and the second one to improve the slow GPS position updates and temporary erroneous GPS velocities. Together with the position estimation, the three components of the true wind speed were also estimated. The first Kalman filter makes use of a complete non-linear model of the aircraft. This design allows the calculation of biases especially in the airflow angles and air speed measurements for their consequent correction. The future availability of servo deflections information should be used to improve the estimations and also avoiding the use of physical based models for servo dynamics. The second filters uses the first Kalman filter airflow angles and airspeed estimations and propagate then through equations of motion. Future availability of inertial acceleration information will allow augmenting the Kalman filters for optimal estimation of the inertial speeds avoiding their deterministic calculation from estimated inertial positions.
Introduction to Kalman Filter and Its Applications
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We provide a tutorial-like description of Kalman filter and extended Kalman filter. This chapter aims for those who need to teach Kalman filters to others, or for those who do not have a strong background in estimation theory. Following a problem definition of state estimation, filtering algorithms will be presented with supporting examples to help readers easily grasp how the Kalman filters work. Implementations on INS/GNSS navigation, target tracking, and terrain-referenced navigation (TRN) are given. In each example, we discuss how to choose, implement, tune, and modify the algorithms for real world practices. Source codes for implementing the examples are also provided. In conclusion, this chapter will become a prerequisite for other contents in the book.
Design of Extended Kalman Filter for Object Position Tracking
International Journal of Engineering Research and, 2018
This study present the design of extended Kalman filter (EKF) for object position tracking. It is required to accurately track the position of an object amidst noisy measurements. The state variables and nonlinear output equations were obtained for a flying object at a fixed point position. An extended Kalman filter and its algorithm was developed in the embedded Matlab/Simulink function block. The measurement noise was introduced in the filter using the random noise block of the Matlab/Simulink block code. Simulations were performed at 0.1s sampling intervals. The output error standard deviation was varied between 0.05 and 1. This results to optimal selection of the system noise covariance matrix. The simulation results obtained showed that the designed extended Kalman filter accurately tracked object position with improved filtering performance by effective tuning of the noise covariance matrix.
Aircraft Dynamics Identification by Extended Kalman Filtering
To keep the safety level in airspace and allow the integration of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), the rules of air must have respected and more particularly the "sense and avoid" principle. And this principle like the most of aeronautic rules and uses, supposes a skilled pilot on board. That is why it is interesting to have a model of expert tasks and will allow to concept an automatic behaviour which respects the rules of air and offer that the behaviour of the UAV will be coherent with human pilot expectations. Indeed in a dangerous situation, an optimal, but unnatural (from airman experience) behaviour may increase the risk of collision. We present a general Input/Output model of expert pilot and the equation modelling the human perception and the perception strategies for a potential situation of flight collision, but more particularly we will dwell on the identification of parameters of these equations by extended kalman filter and which allows for the automatic to discriminate different types of collision situations.
Kalman Filters: Theory and Implementation
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Small unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and micro air vehicles (MAVs) have payload and power constraints that prohibit heavy sensors and powerful processors. This paper presents real-time attitude and position estimation solutions that use small, inexpensive sensors and low-power microprocessors. In connection with an Extended Kalman Filter attitude estimation scheme, a novel method for dealing with latency in real-time is presented using a distributed-in-time architectur