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71 Citations
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15 January 2018

State of charge (SOC) is a key parameter for lithium-ion battery management systems. The square root cubature Kalman filter (SRCKF) algorithm has been developed to estimate the SOC of batteries. SRCKF calculates 2n points that have the same weights a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Power Electronics Technologies for Power Systems and Machine Drives)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,928 Views
25 Pages

Research for the Positioning Optimization for Portable Field Terrain Mapping Equipment Based on the Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter Algorithm

  • Jiaxing Xie,
  • Zhenbang Yu,
  • Gaotian Liang,
  • Xianbing Fu and ,
  • Peng Gao,
  • Huili Yin,
  • Daozong Sun,
  • Weixing Wang,
  • Yueju Xue and
  • Jun Li
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

14 November 2024

Field positioning (FP) is a key technique in the digitalization of agriculture. By integrating sensors and mapping techniques, FP can convey critical information such as soil quality, plant distribution, and topography. Utilizing vehicles for field a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crop Yield Estimation Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,671 Views
17 Pages

26 April 2022

This paper proposes a method for the online parameter identification of nonlinear ship motion systems. First, the motion system of a ship is nonlinear, and in the course of sailing, the motion parameters of the ship will change with the change of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
11,630 Views
15 Pages

7 March 2018

The Unscented Kalman filter (UKF) may suffer from performance degradation and even divergence while mismatch between the noise distribution assumed as a priori by users and the actual ones in a real nonlinear system. To resolve this problem, this pap...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,002 Views
24 Pages

15 January 2025

In this paper, a state estimation method of distributed electric drive articulated vehicle dynamics parameters based on the forgetting factor unscented Kalman filter with singular value decomposition (SVD-UKF) is proposed. The 7DOF nonlinear dynamics...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Surface Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,964 Views
23 Pages

21 August 2023

This work presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of four prominent swarm intelligence (SI) optimization algorithms: Ant Lion Optimizer (ALO), Bat Algorithm (BA), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), and Moth Flame Optimization (MFO). When compared under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,717 Views
18 Pages

Spatiotemporal Joint Cleaning of Distribution Network Measurement Data Based on Correntropy Criterion with Variable Center Unscented Kalman Filter

  • Zhenglong Sun,
  • Chuanlin Liu,
  • Baihan Liu,
  • Jun Zhou and ,
  • Chen Chen and
  • Qipeng Song
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 August 2022

Measurement data cleaning is a key step of edge computing in a distribution network; it is beneficial to improve the state perception and regional autonomy level of a distribution network. According to the temporal and spatial correlation of measurem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,165 Views
13 Pages

Unscented Kalman Filter with Joint Decision Scheme for Phase Estimation in Probabilistically Shaped QAM Systems

  • Yuan Gao,
  • Zhipei Li,
  • Dong Guo,
  • Ze Dong and ,
  • Lei Zhu,
  • Huan Chang,
  • Sitong Zhou,
  • Yongjun Wang,
  • Qinghua Tian and
  • Leijing Yang
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

28 September 2023

A carrier phase estimation method based on the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is proposed for probabilistically shaped (PS) quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) systems. We further integrate a joint decision scheme into the proposed UKF−based a...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,399 Views
27 Pages

15 July 2020

As the progress of electronics and information processing technology continues, indoor localization has become a research hotspot in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The adverse non-line of sight (NLOS) propagation usually causes large measurement err...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Approaches for Indoor Localization and Navigation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
880 Views
43 Pages

23 March 2026

In the state estimation problem for nonlinear systems, the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) has gained attention as an algorithm capable of accurate state estimation based on high-fidelity discretization for strongly nonlinear systems. Furthermore, for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAVs as Mobile Sensing Platforms: Advances, Innovations, and Emerging Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,492 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive IMM-UKF for Airborne Tracking

  • Alvaro Arroyo Cebeira and
  • Mariano Asensio Vicente

In this paper, we propose a nonlinear tracking solution for maneuvering aerial targets based on an adaptive interacting multiple model (IMM) framework and unscented Kalman filters (UKFs), termed as AIMM-UKF. The purpose is to obtain more accurate est...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Air Traffic and Airspace Control and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,726 Views
18 Pages

25 August 2019

The unscented Kalman filter (UKF) can effectively reduce the linearized model error and the dependence on initial coordinate values for indoor pseudolite (PL) positioning unlike the extended Kalman filter (EKF). However, PL observations are prone to...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,462 Views
31 Pages

6 September 2024

The trajectory estimation of a highly maneuvering target is a challenging problem and has practical applications. The interacting multiple model (IMM) filter is a well-established filtering algorithm for the trajectory estimation of maneuvering targe...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Algorithms for Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,271 Views
19 Pages

28 June 2018

To address the problem of low accuracy for the regular filter algorithm in SINS/DVL integrated navigation, a square-root unscented information filter (SR-UIF) is presented in this paper. The proposed method: (1) adopts the state probability approxima...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multi-Sensor Information Fusion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
9,642 Views
19 Pages

Quaternion-Based Robust Attitude Estimation Using an Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter

  • Antônio C. B. Chiella,
  • Bruno O. S. Teixeira and
  • Guilherme A. S. Pereira

23 May 2019

This paper presents the Quaternion-based Robust Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter (QRAUKF) for attitude estimation. The proposed methodology modifies and extends the standard UKF equations to consistently accommodate the non-Euclidean algebra of unit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Sensor Systems for Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,839 Views
19 Pages

The Identification of ECG Signals Using WT-UKF and IPSO-SVM

  • Ning Li,
  • Longhui Zhu,
  • Wentao Ma,
  • Yelin Wang and ,
  • Fuxing He,
  • Aixiang Zheng and
  • Xiaoping Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 March 2022

The biometric identification method is a current research hotspot in the pattern recognition field. Due to the advantages of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, which are difficult to replicate and easy to obtain, ECG-based identity identification has b...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,068 Views
23 Pages

The autonomous navigation of mobile robots contains three parts: map building, global localization, and path planning. Precise pose data directly affect the accuracy of global localization. However, the cumulative error problems of sensors and variou...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,807 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2024

In complex marine environments, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) rely on robust navigation and positioning. Traditional algorithms face challenges from sensor outliers and non-Gaussian noise, leading to significant prediction errors and filter d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,518 Views
18 Pages

27 June 2012

A new filter named the maximum likelihood-based iterated divided difference filter (MLIDDF) is developed to improve the low state estimation accuracy of nonlinear state estimation due to large initial estimation errors and nonlinearity of measurement...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,516 Views
20 Pages

29 April 2024

An accurate and reliable sideslip angle is crucial for active safety control systems and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). The direct measurement method of the sideslip angle suffers from challenges of high costs and environmental sensitivit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,298 Views
13 Pages

23 December 2024

To improve the accuracy of calculating the aluminum electrolysis pre-close wind volume, this study focused on optimizing the two main factors that influence its magnitude: the aluminum output speed and the pre-close wind volume coefficient. First, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,897 Views
18 Pages

22 March 2018

In this paper, we address the problem of vehicle localization in urban environments. We rely on visual odometry, calculating the incremental motion, to track the position of the vehicle and on place recognition to correct the accumulated drift of vis...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
9,540 Views
23 Pages

25 July 2023

This paper proposes a novel vehicle state estimation (VSE) method that combines a physics-informed neural network (PINN) and an unscented Kalman filter on manifolds (UKF-M). This VSE aimed to achieve inertial measurement unit (IMU) calibration and pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,062 Views
19 Pages

14 October 2024

Estimating the state of a system by fusing sensor data is a major prerequisite in many applications. When the state is time-variant, derivatives of the Kalman filter are a popular choice for solving that task. Two variants are the square-root unscent...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
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  • Open Access
79 Citations
5,908 Views
16 Pages

1 January 2018

An accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation of the on-board lithium-ion battery is of paramount importance for the efficient and reliable operation of electric vehicles (EVs). Aiming to improve the accuracy and reliability of battery SOC estimation,...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Energy Storage and Application)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,916 Views
28 Pages

Research on Optimization of Diesel Engine Speed Control Based on UKF-Filtered Data and PSO Fuzzy PID Control

  • Jun Fu,
  • Shuo Gu,
  • Lei Wu,
  • Nan Wang and ,
  • Luchen Lin and
  • Zhenghong Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 March 2025

With the continuous development of industrial automation, diesel engines play an increasingly important role in various types of construction machinery and power generation equipment. Improving the dynamic and static performance of the speed control...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,700 Views
26 Pages

21 February 2018

In this paper, a static state observer algorithm based on the static equilibrium position is proposed, which can realize accurate control of electric vehicle height adjustment with existing road excitation. The existence of road excitation can lead t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The International Symposium on Electric Vehicles (ISEV2017))
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,297 Views
16 Pages

In terms of the dynamic changes of battery model parameters in a single-model filtering algorithm, the filter estimation accuracy can be poor, and filtering is scattered due to the different internal state parameters of lithium-ion batteries in diffe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Storage, Analysis and Battery Usage)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,332 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2025

Because of the problem that the traditional unscented Kalman filter algorithm (UKF) may terminate the iteration due to the non-positive definite error covariance matrix during state of charge (SOC) estimation of lithium-ion battery, considering the u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control, Modelling, and Management of Batteries)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,879 Views
30 Pages

9 December 2025

The vehicle sideslip angle is a core state parameter in vehicle dynamics control. Its accurate estimation is critical for vehicle stability control and the development of active safety systems. In the vehicle sideslip angle estimation method using th...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,167 Views
19 Pages

This study introduces a pose estimation algorithm integrating an Inertial Navigation System (INS) with an Alternating Current (AC) magnetic field-based navigation system, referred to as the Magnetic Positioning System (MPS), evaluated using a 6 Degre...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
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5 Citations
2,743 Views
22 Pages

19 July 2024

Due to the complexity of the missile air data system (ADS) and the harshness of the environment in which its sensors operate, the effectiveness of traditional fault diagnosis methods is significantly reduced. To this end, this paper proposes a method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
104 Citations
7,228 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Method for Lithium-Ion Battery Online Parameter Identification Based on Variable Forgetting Factor Recursive Least Squares

  • Zizhou Lao,
  • Bizhong Xia,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Wei Sun and ,
  • Yongzhi Lai and
  • Mingwang Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 May 2018

For model-based state of charge (SOC) estimation methods, the battery model parameters change with temperature, SOC, and so forth, causing the estimation error to increase. Constantly updating model parameters during battery operation, also known as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,468 Views
17 Pages

3 December 2025

Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation is crucial for the safety, reliability, and energy efficiency of lithium-ion battery systems. However, variations in battery parameters and the loss of historical information during the update steps of tradit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,500 Views
18 Pages

Power Quality Disturbance Classification Method Based on Unscented Kalman Filter and Kernel Extreme Learning Machine

  • Yanjun Jiao,
  • Haoyu Cao,
  • Linke Wang,
  • Jiahui Wei and ,
  • Yansong Zhu and
  • Hucheng He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 March 2025

The power quality index is an important index in the power industry. Power quality disturbances (PQDs) have a great impact on the power grid. It is important to identify the type of PQDs accurately. However, it is difficult to analyze a large number...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,241 Views
20 Pages

Moving-Target Tracking in Airport Airside Operations Using AIMM-STUKF

  • Jianshu Gao,
  • Yinuo Dang,
  • Yuxuan Zhu and
  • Wenqing Xue

26 December 2025

In this paper, we propose a mobile target tracking method for airport movement areas based on an adaptive interacting multiple model framework combined with a strong tracking unscented Kalman filter, referred to as the AIMM-STUKF algorithm. The objec...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,653 Views
20 Pages

Inter-Element Phase Error Compensated Calibration Method for USBL Arrays

  • Dejinxuan Zhang,
  • Guangpu Zhang,
  • Xu Zhao,
  • Nan Zou and ,
  • Jin Fu and
  • Yuanxin Bai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study addresses the critical limitation of existing Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) calibration algorithms in handling transducer positional errors and inter-element phase errors. We propose a novel positioning-calibration model based on vector proj...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Autonomous Surface Vehicle)
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  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,733 Views
16 Pages

28 July 2019

Underwater target tracking system can be kept covert using the bearing-only or the bearing-Doppler measurements (passive measurements), which will reduce the risk of been detected. According to the characteristics of underwater target tracking, the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Information Theory in Acoustics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,390 Views
18 Pages

UKF-Based Observer Design for the Electric Brake Booster in Situations of Disturbance

  • Mingming Mei,
  • Shuo Cheng,
  • Liang Li,
  • Hongyuan Mu and
  • Yuxuan Pei

22 February 2023

The motor-driven electric brake booster (E-Booster) can replace the traditional vacuum booster to realize the braking power assistance and active braking. Independent of extra sensors, this paper proposes a full-state observer for E-Booster based on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent and Precision Control for Mechatronic/Electro-Hydraulic Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,028 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2024

As sensor monitoring technology continues to evolve, structural online monitoring and health management have found numerous applications across various fields. However, challenges remain concerning the real-time diagnosis of structural damage and the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,258 Views
34 Pages

19 October 2025

Nonlinear filtering algorithms have significant implications in the optimal estimation of navigation states and in improving the accuracy, reliability, and robustness of navigation systems. This manuscript surveys the developments of the nonlinear fi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
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  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,131 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2023

The article addresses the issue of mobile robotic platform positioning in GNSS-denied environments in real-time. The proposed system relies on fusing data from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), magnetometer, and encoders. To get symmetrical error g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Digital, Modeling and Control Applies into Various Processes II)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,518 Views
21 Pages

2D and 3D Angles-Only Target Tracking Based on Maximum Correntropy Kalman Filters

  • Asfia Urooj,
  • Aastha Dak,
  • Branko Ristic and
  • Rahul Radhakrishnan

27 July 2022

In this paper, angles-only target tracking (AoT) problem is investigated in the non Gaussian environment. Since the conventional minimum mean square error criterion based estimators tend to give poor accuracy in the presence of large outliers or impu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Angle-Only Filtering and Tracking in Two and Three Dimensions)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,040 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2020

In the process of the attitude measurement for a steering drilling system, the measurement of the attitude parameters may be uncertain and unpredictable due to the influence of server vibration on bits. In order to eliminate the interference caused b...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
628 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2025

With the improvement scale of grid connection renewable power, accurately forecasting and effectively coordinating systems with various energy sources has become much more important for power system scheduling and operation. Considering the uncertain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Marine Renewable Energy Utilization and Offshore Storage Technologies)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,463 Views
19 Pages

Unscented Kalman Filter Based on Spectrum Sensing in a Cognitive Radio Network Using an Adaptive Fuzzy System

  • Md Ruhul Amin,
  • Md Mahbubur Rahman,
  • Mohammad Amazad Hossain,
  • Md Khairul Islam and ,
  • Kazi Mowdud Ahmed,
  • Bikash Chandra Singh and
  • Md Sipon Miah
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In this paper, we proposed the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) based on cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) scheme in a cognitive radio network (CRN) using an adaptive fuzzy system—in this proposed scheme, firstly, the UKF to apply the nonlinear s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,257 Views
9 Pages

An improved state estimation technique for bioprocess control applications is proposed where a hybrid version of the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) is employed. The underlying dynamic system model is formulated as a conventional system of ordinary dif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Modelling and Multi-Parametric Control of Bioprocesses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,933 Views
16 Pages

PMHT Approach for Multi-Target Multi-Sensor Sonar Tracking in Clutter

  • Xiaohua Li,
  • Yaan Li,
  • Jing Yu,
  • Xiao Chen and
  • Miao Dai

6 November 2015

Multi-sensor sonar tracking has many advantages, such as the potential to reduce the overall measurement uncertainty and the possibility to hide the receiver. However, the use of multi-target multi-sensor sonar tracking is challenging because of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,114 Views
20 Pages

23 November 2020

In this paper, a hybrid realization model is proposed for the controllers of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). This model is based on the model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methodology, in combination with the model-driven architecture (MDA)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model-Based Systems Engineering: Rigorous Foundations for Digital Transformations in Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,285 Views
18 Pages

An Adaptive Gain Nonlinear Observer for State of Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles

  • Yong Tian,
  • Chaoren Chen,
  • Bizhong Xia,
  • Wei Sun and ,
  • Zhihui Xu and
  • Weiwei Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 September 2014

The state of charge (SOC) is important for the safety and reliability of battery operation since it indicates the remaining capacity of a battery. However, it is difficult to get an accurate value of SOC, because the SOC cannot be directly measured b...

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