Tracking the spin on a ping pong ball with the quaternion Bingham filter
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Glover, Jared
Kaelbling, Leslie P.
Date Issued
May 2014
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Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Glover, Jared, and Leslie Pack Kaelbling. “Tracking the Spin on a Ping Pong Ball with the Quaternion Bingham Filter.” 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (May 2014).
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Abstract
A deterministic method for sequential estimation of 3-D rotations is presented. The Bingham distribution is used to represent uncertainty directly on the unit quaternion hypersphere. Quaternions avoid the degeneracies of other 3-D orientation representations, while the Bingham distribution allows tracking of large-error (high-entropy) rotational distributions. Experimental comparison to a leading EKF-based filtering approach on both synthetic signals and a ball-tracking dataset shows that the Quaternion Bingham Filter (QBF) has lower tracking error than the EKF, particularly when the state is highly dynamic. We present two versions of the QBF- suitable for tracking the state of first- and second-order rotating dynamical systems.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907460