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R.Youden

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Apr 1, 2005
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Hello everyone.

I am doing some research into advanced robotic behaviour and something that keeps coming up alot is the Kalman Filter. I know it is also used with computer graphics.

Does anyone know anything about the Kalman Filter? Also anything that is not aimed at degree level maths would be useful!
 

chooki

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Jan 21, 2006
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A Kalman Filter is a way to incorporate imperfect measurements of something, and use them to predict future state. For example, you could take position measurements of a boat, and in conjunction with a rough model of the behavior of the boat (say it is moving roughly in a straight line with a slowly-changing speed), you can predict where it will be as time goes on.
 
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