Introduction and Implementations of the Kalman Filter

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2019
• Subjects: Digital signal processing (DSP); extended kalman filter, autonomous vehicles, target tracking, identification, maximum likelihood
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 Sensor data fusion is the process of combining error-prone, heterogeneous, incomplete, and ambiguous data to gather a higher level of situational awareness. In principle, all living creatures are fusing information from their complementary senses to coordinate their actions and to detect and localize danger. In sensor data fusion, this process is transferred to electronic systems, which rely on some "awareness" of what is happening in certain areas of interest. By means of probability theory and statistics, it is possible to model the relationship between the state space and the sensor data. The number of ingredients of the resulting Kalman filter is limited, but its applications are not.