An improvement to the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm

  • Authors:
  • L.A. Johnston;V. Krishnamurthy

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Parkville, Vic.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Computing the optimal conditional mean state estimate for a jump Markov linear system requires exponential complexity, and hence, practical filtering algorithms are necessarily suboptimal. In the target tracking literature, suboptimal multiple-model filtering algorithms, such as the interacting multiple model (IMM) method and generalized pseudo-Bayesian (GPB) schemes, are widely used for state estimation of such systems. We derive a reweighted interacting multiple model algorithm. Although the IMM algorithm is an approximation of the conditional mean state estimator, our algorithm is a recursive implementation of a maximum a posteriori (MAP) state sequence estimator. This MAP estimator is an instance of a previous version of the EM algorithm known as the alternating expectation conditional maximization (AECM) algorithm. Computer simulations indicate that the proposed reweighted IMM algorithm is a competitive alternative to the popular IMM algorithm and GPB methods