Parameter estimation for Relational Kalman Filtering

Abstract

The Kalman Filter (KF) is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health and defense products. By grouping sets of symmetric state variables, the Relational Kalman Filter (RKF) enables to scale the exact KF for large-scale dynamic systems. In this paper, we provide a parameter learning algorithm for RKF, and a regrouping algorithm that prevents the degeneration of the relational structure for efficient filtering. The proposed algorithms significantly expand the applicability of the RKFs by solving the following questions: (1) how to learn parameters for RKF in partial observations; and (2) how to regroup the degenerated state variables by noisy real-world observations. We show that our new algorithms improve the efficiency of filtering the large-scale dynamic system.