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The Harmonic Exponential Filter for Nonparametric Estimation on Motion Groups
Miguel Saavedra-Ruiz
Steven A. Parkison
Ria Arora
James Richard Forbes
Liam Paull
Bayesian estimation is a vital tool in robotics as it allows systems to update the robot state belief using incomplete information from nois… (voir plus)y sensors. To render the state estimation problem tractable, many systems assume that the motion and measurement noise, as well as the state distribution, are unimodal and Gaussian. However, there are numerous scenarios and systems that do not comply with these assumptions. Existing nonparametric filters that are used to model multimodal distributions have drawbacks that limit their ability to represent a diverse set of distributions. This paper introduces a novel approach to nonparametric Bayesian filtering on motion groups, designed to handle multimodal distributions using harmonic exponential distributions. This approach leverages two key insights of harmonic exponential distributions: a) the product of two distributions can be expressed as the element-wise addition of their log-likelihood Fourier coefficients, and b) the convolution of two distributions can be efficiently computed as the tensor product of their Fourier coefficients. These observations enable the development of an efficient and asymptotically exact solution to the Bayes filter up to the band limit of a Fourier transform. We demonstrate our filter's performance compared with established nonparametric filtering methods across simulated and real-world localization tasks.
2025-01-31
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (publié)
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