A new class of particle filters for random dynamic systems with unknown statistics

  • Authors:

  • Joaquín Míguez;Mónica F. Bugallo;Petar M. Djurić

  • Affiliations:

  • Departamento de Electrónica e Sistemas, Universidade da Coruña, Facultade de Informática, Coruña, Spain;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In recent years, particle filtering has become a powerful tool for tracking signals and time-varying parameters of random dynamic systems. These methods require a mathematical representation of the dynamics of the system evolution, together with assumptions of probabilistic models. In this paper, we present a new class of particle filtering methods that do not assume explicit mathematical forms of the probability distributions of the noise in the system. As a consequence, the proposed techniques are simpler, more robust, and more flexible than standard particle filters. Apart from the theoretical development of specific methods in the new class, we provide computer simulation results that demonstrate the performance of the algorithms in the problem of autonomous positioning of a vehicle in a 2-dimensional space.