NCS: Kalman Filtering

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In this lecture, we study the Kalman filter for discrete-time linear systems. In particular, we see under what assumptions and in what senses the Kalman filter is an optimal estimator. To prove the results we use some results about conditional expectations and Gaussian probabiliy distributions. We show that the filter contains one prediction step and one correcter step that takes the most recent measurement into account. An example is used to illustrate the results.

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Additional Resources

  • The Kalman Filter, G. Welch and G. Bishop. A webpage with many links on Kalman filter.

  • Optimal Filtering, B.D.O Anderson and J.B. Moore. Dover Books on Engineering, 2005. A reissue of a book from 1979. It contains a detailed mathematical presentation of the filtering problems. A very good book.