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Vega-Brown, Will (William Robert) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering 2013-10-24T17:47:40Z 2013-10-24T17:47:40Z 2013 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81715 861000192 Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117). In this thesis, I develop CELLO, an algorithm for predicting the covariances of any Gaussian model used to account for uncertainty in a complex system. The primary motivation for this work is state estimation; often, complex raw sensor measurements are processed into low dimensional observations of a vehicle state. I argue that the covariance of these observations can be well-modelled as a function of the raw sensor measurement, and provide a method to learn this function from data. This method is computationally cheap, asymptotically correct, easy to extend to new sensors, and noninvasive, in the sense that it augments, rather than disrupts, existing filtering algorithms. I additionally present two important variants; first, I extend CELLO to learn even when ground truth vehicle states are unavailable; and second, I present an equivalent Bayesian algorithm. I then use CELLO to learn covariance models for several systems, including a laser scan-matcher, an optical flow system, and a visual odometry system. I show that filtering using covariances predicted by CELLO can quantitatively improve estimator accuracy and consistency, both relative to a fixed covariance model and relative to carefully tuned domain-specific covariance models. by William Vega-Brown. S.M. 117 p. eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Mechanical Engineering. Predictive parameter estimation for Bayesian filtering Thesis application/pdf false Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="b90075a8-42f0-4a65-adb8-4da85c500d1f"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>Predictive parameter estimation for Bayesian filtering</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2013</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Vega-Brown, Will (William Robert)</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Mechanical Engineering.</Keyword> <Abstract>In this thesis, I develop CELLO, an algorithm for predicting the covariances of any Gaussian model used to account for uncertainty in a complex system. The primary motivation for this work is state estimation; often, complex raw sensor measurements are processed into low dimensional observations of a vehicle state. I argue that the covariance of these observations can be well-modelled as a function of the raw sensor measurement, and provide a method to learn this function from data. This method is computationally cheap, asymptotically correct, easy to extend to new sensors, and noninvasive, in the sense that it augments, rather than disrupts, existing filtering algorithms. I additionally present two important variants; first, I extend CELLO to learn even when ground truth vehicle states are unavailable; and second, I present an equivalent Bayesian algorithm. I then use CELLO to learn covariance models for several systems, including a laser scan-matcher, an optical flow system, and a visual odometry system. I show that filtering using covariances predicted by CELLO can quantitatively improve estimator accuracy and consistency, both relative to a fixed covariance model and relative to carefully tuned domain-specific covariance models.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>