• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.99-115
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• 2020

Since GNSS is easily affected by jamming and/or spoofing, alternative navigation systems can be operated as backup system to prepare for outage of GNSS. Alternative navigation systems are being researched over the world, and a multi-radio integrated navigation system using alternative navigation systems such as KNSS, eLoran, Loran-C, DME, VOR has been researched in Korea. Least Square or Kalman filter can be used to estimate navigation parameters in the navigation system. A large number of measurements of the Kalman filter may lead to heavy computational load. The decentralized Kalman filter and the federated Kalman filter were proposed to handle this problem. In this paper, the decentralized Kalman filter and the federated Kalman filter are designed for the multi-radio integrated navigation system and the performance evaluation result are presented. The decentralized Kalman filter and the federated Kalman filter consists of local filters and a master filter. The navigation parameter is estimated by local filters and master filter compensates navigation parameter from the local filters. Characteristics of three Kalman filters for a linear system and nonlinear system are investigated, and the performance evaluation results of the three Kalman filters for multi-radio integrated navigation system are compared.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.10-14
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• 2008

The robot localization problem is a key problem in making truly autonomous robots. In this work we provide thorough discussions of Ultrasonic Positioning System can be applied to the localization problem. First, we look at the use of Kalman filters and basic concept and the equation involved in Kalman filters. Secondly, we create understanding of how the Kalman filters can be implemented in robot localization. We show our discussion and experiments how Kalman filters applied to the localization problem. Lastly, we perform simulations using Usat Wheel Chair robot in our own general Kalman filters robot monitoring software.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.108-117
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• 2012

This paper focuses on a performance analysis of TRN among various nonlinear filtering methods. In a TRN research, extended Kalman filter(EKF) is a basic estimation algorithm. In this paper, iterated EKF(IEKF), EKF with stochastic linearization(SL), and unscented Kalman filter(UKF) algorithms are introduced to compare navigation performance with original EKF. In addition to introduced sequential filters, bank of Kalman filters method, which is one of the batch method, is also presented. Finally, by simulating an artificial aircraft mission, EKF with SL was chosen as the most consistent filter in the introduced sequential filters. Also, results suggested that the bank of Kalman filters can be alternative for TRN, when a fast convergence of navigation solution is needed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.344-347
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• 1995

The standard estimation and filtering theory are well known and has recently been incorporated with the H$_{\infty}$ optimization techniques where the parametrizations of all estimators and filters are utilized. The issue of reducing its order is always of interest. This paper presents a method for synthesizing low-order stable state estimators. The method presented in this paper is based on the utilization of a free parameter function contained in the parametrization of all state estimators. The results obtained in the paper are compared with standard results on low-order estimators. Both results are shown to be the same in a sense of its orders, but the approaches taken are largely different. It is also shown in the paper that the method can easily and directly be extended to the Kalman filters and the H$_{\infty}$ (sub)optimal filters. Consequently, the orders of all state estimators, Kalman filters, and H$_{\infty}$ filters are shown to be reduced down to the number of states minus the number of outputs, respectively.ly.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.16-21
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• 2005

This paper considers the problem of state estimation in linear continuous-time systems with multi-sensor environment and observation uncertainties. We propose two suboptimal filtering algorithms for these types of systems. The filtering algorithms consist of two steps: The local optimal Kalman estimates are computed at the first step. And, these local estimates are lineally fused at the second step. The implementation of the two-step filtering algorithms needs a lower memory demand than the optimal Kalman and adaptive Lainiotis-Kalman filters. In consequence of parallel structure of the proposed filters, the parallel computers can be used for their design. The examples exhibit the effect of common noise on the performance of fusion of the local Kalman estimates based on observations from different sensors and in the presence of uncertainties.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.307-314
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• 2012

This paper reports on the design of an object tracker that utilizes a family of unscented Kalman filters, one for each tracked object. This is a more efficient design than having one unscented Kalman filter for the family of all moving objects. The performance of the designed and implemented filter is demonstrated by using simulated movements, and also for object movements in 2D and 3D space.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.691-694
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• 1999

This paper presents a performance improvement technique of 2-D towed array shape estimation using Kalman filters. The proposed algorithm by linear model approximation corrects the position errors caused by the Kalman filter results. However, since the assumed linear model makes errors at bending parts, the spline interpolation algorithm based on curve is proposed to reduce the errors.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.219-228
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a novel blind adaptive multiuser detector structure and three robust recursive filters to improve the performance in CDMA environments: Sigma point kalman filter (SPKF), particle filter (PF), and Gaussian mixture sigma point particle filter (GMSPPF). Our proposed robust recursive filters have superior performance over a conventional extended Kalman filter (EKF). The proposed multiuser detector algorithms initially use Kalman prediction form to estimated channel parameters, and unknown data symbol be predicted. Second, based on this predicted data symbol, the robust recursive filters (e.g., GMSPPF) is a refined estimation of joint multipaths and time delays. With these estimated multipaths and time delays, data symbol detection is carried out (Kalman correction form). Computer simulations show that the proposed algorithms outperform the conventional blind multiuser detector with the EKF. Also we can see it provides a more viable means for tracking time-varying amplitudes and time delays in CDMA communication systems, compared to that of the EKF for near-far ratio of 20 dB. For this reason, it is believed that the proposed channel estimators can replace well-known filter such as the EKF.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.148-154
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• 2009

In this paper, an embedded Kalman filter for a time-delayed controller is designed on an FPGA to estimate accelerations of the robot arm. When the time-delayed controller is used as a controller, the inertia estimation along with accelerations is needed to form the control law. Although the time-delayed controller is known to be robust to cancel out uncertainties in the nonlinear systems, performances are very much dependent upon estimating the acceleration term ${\ddot{q}}(t-{\lambda})$ along with inertia estimation ${\hat{D}}(t-{\lambda})$. Estimating accelerations using the finite difference method is quite simple, but the accuracy of estimation is poor specially when the robot moves slowly. To estimate accelerations more accurately, various filters such as the least square fit filter and the Kalman filter are introduced and implemented on an FPGA chip. Experimental studies of following the desired trajectory are conducted to show the performance of the controller. Performances of different filters are investigated experimentally and compared.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.104-109
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• 2002

A new robust Kalman filter is designed for the linear discrete-time system with norm-bounded parametric uncertainties. Sum quadratic constraint, which describes the uncertainties of the system, is converted into an indefinite quadratic form to be minimized in indefinite inner product space. This minimization problem is solved by the new robust Kalman filter. Since the new filter is obtained by simply modifying the conventional Kalman filter, robust filtering scheme can be more readily designed using the proposed method in comparison with the existing robust Kalman filters. A numerical example demonstrates the robustness and the improvement of the proposed filter compared with the existing filters.