A particle filter via constrained sampling for nonlinear dynamic systems. (19th June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hu, Chongyang; Liang, Yan; Wang, Xiaoxu; Xu, Linfeng
• Is Part Of: International journal of robust and nonlinear control. Volume 30:Number 13(2020)
• Page Start: 4944
• Page End: 4959
• Publication Date: 2020-06-19
• Subjects: constrained particle filter -- constrained sampling -- equality constraints -- nonlinear dynamic systems -- state estimation; Automatic control -- Periodicals; Control theory -- Periodicals; Nonlinear systems -- Periodicals; 629.836
• DOI: 10.1002/rnc.5024
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-8923

Abstract

Summary: This article is concentrated on the particle filtering problem for nonlinear systems with nonlinear equality constraints. Considering the constraint information incorporated into filters can improve the state estimation accuracy, we propose an adaptive constrained particle filter via constrained sampling. First, in order to obtain particles drawn from the constrained important density function, we construct and solve a general optimization function theoretically fusing equality constraints and the importance density function. Furthermore, to reduce the computation time caused by the number of particles, the constrained Kullback‐Leiler distance sampling method is given to online adapt the number of particles needed for state estimation. A simulation study in the context of road‐confined vehicle tracking demonstrates that the proposed filter outperforms the typical constrained ones for equality constrained dynamic systems.