Robust Kalman Filters for Linear Time-Varying Systems with Stochastic Parametric Uncertainties

Robust Kalman Filters for Linear Time-Varying Systems with Stochastic Parametric Uncertainties

F. Wang and V. Balakrishnan

IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 4, pages 803-813, April 2002


Abstract: We present a robust recursive Kalman filtering algorithm that addresses estimation problems that arise in linear time-varying systems with stochastic parametric uncertainties. The filter has a one-step predictor-corrector structure and minimizes an upper bound of the mean square estimation error at each step, with the minimization reduced to a convex optimization problem based on linear matrix inequalities. The algorithm is shown to converge when the system is mean square stable and the state space matrices are time-invariant. A numerical example, consisting of equalizer design for a communication channel, demonstrates that our algorithm offers considerable improvement in performance when compared to conventional Kalman filtering techniques.
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