Guaranteed nonlinear parameter estimation in knowledge-based models
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Special issue: Scientific computing, computer arithmetic, and validated numerics (SCAN 2004)
Real-time Bounded-error State Estimation for Vehicle Tracking
International Journal of Robotics Research
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Mobile robot localization by multiangulation using set inversion
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Mobile robot localization by multiangulation using set inversion
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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When reliable prior bounds on the acceptable errors between the data and corresponding model outputs are available, bounded-error estimation techniques make it possible to characterize the set of all acceptable parameter vectors in a guaranteed way, even when the model is nonlinear and the number of data points small. However, when the data may contain outliers, i.e., data points for which these bounds should be violated, this set may turn out to be empty, or at least unrealistically small. The outlier minimal number estimator (OMNE) has been designed to deal with such a situation, by minimizing the number of data points considered as outliers. OMNE has been shown in previous papers to be remarkably robust, even to a majority of outliers. Up to now, it was implemented by random scanning, so its results could not be guaranteed. In this paper, a new algorithm based on set inversion via interval analysis provides a guaranteed OMNE, which is applied to the initial localization of an actual robot in a partially known two-dimensional (2-D) environment. The difficult problems of associating range data to landmarks of the environment and of detecting potential outliers are solved as byproducts of the procedure.