This thesis investigates methods for estimating relative 3D position and pose from monocular image sequences. The intended future application is of one satellite observing another, when flying in close formation. The ideas explored in this thesis build on methods developed for use in camera calibration and Kalman filter-based structure from motion (SfM). Each of the algorithms relies on visible...

Over the last 20-30 years, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) has become the algorithm of choice in numerous nonlinear estimation and machine learning applications. These include estimating the state of a nonlinear dynamic system as well estimating parameters for nonlinear system identification (e.g., learning the weights of a neural network). The EKF applies the standard linear Kalman filter met...

This work develops an algorithm to initialize an Unscented Kalman Filter using a Particle Filter for applications with initial non-Gaussian probability density functions. The method is applied to estimating the position of a road vehicle along a one-mile test track using terrain-based localization where the pitch response of the vehicle is compared to a premeasured pitch map of the test track. ...

A new observer based fault detection and diagnosis scheme for predicting induction motors’ faults is proposed in this paper. Prediction of incipient faults, using different variants of Kalman filter and their relative performance are evaluated. Only soft faults are considered for this work. The data generation, filter convergence issues, hypothesis testing and residue estimates are addressed. S...

Joint estimation of unknown model parameters and unobserved state componentsfor stochastic, nonlinear dynamic systems is customarily pursued via the extendedKalman filter (EKF). However, in the presence of severe nonlinearities in the equa-tions governing system evolution, the EKF can become unstable and accuracy ofthe estimates gets poor. To improve the results, in this paper w...

In this paper, an improved nonlinear Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) filter is proposed to address bearings-only measurements in multi-target tracking. The proposed method, called the Gaussian mixture measurements-probability hypothesis density (GMM-PHD) filter, not only approximates the posterior intensity using a Gaussian mixture, but also models the likelihood functi...

Kalman filters provide an important technique for estimating the states of engineering systems. With several variations of nonlinear Kalman filters, there is a lack of guidelines for filter selection with respect to a specific research or engineering application. This creates a need for an in-depth discussion of the intricacies of different nonlinear Kalman filters. Particularly of interest for...

the radar tracking is one of the best leo satellite tracking methods. while the tracking filters which are mostly linear, and them are not able to have a precise estimation of the objects with nonlinear motion dynamic such as satellite, we should use nonlinear filters. in this paper , firstly, we deal with the problem of the leo satellites motion path modeling according to the satellite motion ...

Kalman filters and observers are two main classes of dynamic state estimation (DSE) routines. Power system DSE has been implemented by various Kalman filters, such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and the unscented Kalman filter (UKF). In this paper, we discuss two challenges for an effective power system DSE: (a) model uncertainty and (b) potential cyber attacks. To address this, the cubatu...