Conference Contribution
Initialization of the Kalman Filter without Assumptions on the Initial State
Magnus Linderoth, Kristian Soltesz, Anders Robertsson, Rolf Johansson
Abstract
In absence of covariance data, Kalman filters are usually initialized by guessing the initial state. Making the variance of the initial state estimate large makes sure that the estimate converges quickly and that the influence of the
initial guess soon will be negligible. If, however, only very few measurements are available during the estimation process and an estimate is wanted as soon as possible, this might not be enough. This paper presents a method to initialize the Kalman filter without any knowledge about the distribution of the initial state and without making any guesses.
In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, P.R. China, In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 2011.