Nonlinear State Estimation in Observation Noise of Unknown Covariance.

Abstract

The problem of estimating the state of a stationary Gauss-Markov sequence observed in uncorrelated Gaussian noise of constant, but unknown, covariance R is considered. An inverted Wishart prior is assigned to the prior innovations covariance M, which is unknown by virtue of the uncertainty in R. The resulting nonlinear state estimator involves a canonical integral which can be approximated to yield an attractive parallel filtering structure. The structure can be used, also, to approximate the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of the innovations covariance.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA015603

Entities

People

  • Daniel L. Alspach
  • Louis L. Louis L. Scharf

Organizations

  • Colorado State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Covariance
  • Data Science
  • Estimators
  • Filtration
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Information Science
  • Integrals
  • Mathematics
  • Noise
  • Observation
  • Sequences
  • Stationary
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Statistical inference.