rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Python

Kalman Filter textbook using Ipython Notebook. This book takes a minimally mathematical approach, focusing on building intuition and experience, not formal proofs. Includes Kalman filters, Extended Kalman filters, unscented filters, and more. Includes exercises with solutions.

Roger Labbe

@rlabbe

Sorry, I jsut saw this. I don't know who phios is, it is some random person that put filterpy on conda. filterpy works in python 3.5 - I do all development on the latest releases of Python 3. Try pip install filterpy instead; that should work. Recently I tried to get filterpy working with conda; conda install filterpy might work for windows, but I have reports it doesn't work for mac and linux yet. I need to put more effort on this.

Mateusz Sadowski

@msadowski

hi @rlabbe! Just started reading your book and it looks great so far! A quick question: would you like me to let you know about any typos I find and if so is this chat room the right place?

Just before I forget here is the first one I spotted: But sitting down and trying to read many of these books is a dismal and trying experience if you do not have the necessary background. [chapter 00]. I think you meant tiring

Just noticed that I marked the wrong trying, I meant the next one dismal and trying experience . Let me know if I should continue doing that or not :). Thanks for the great book!

Roger Labbe

@rlabbe

Hi @msadowski , sure, typo reports are great! You can do it here or type up a github issue, whichever is easier.

Mateusz Sadowski

@msadowski

would it make your life easier if I corrected them as I go and then make commits chapter by chapter and then make pull requests for the changes? I would be quite happy to do that since I'm planning to read the book 'cover to cover'

Roger Labbe

@rlabbe

yes, that is how most people have done it. Once or twice we have had issues where about every line is for some reason marked as a change (I suspect line endings differences between windows and linux), and endup with something like 50,000 lines changes. Of course i had to reject those because there was no reasonable way for me to code/word review before accepting. Just keep the repo up to date and there should be no problem. my pace of change has really slowed down so that shouldn't be an issue

Mateusz Sadowski

@msadowski

Hi rlabbe, Just to let you know: it seems that filterpy is missing again from your binder builld (http://app.mybinder.org/2637687816/notebooks/03-Gaussians.ipynb)

Roger Labbe

@rlabbe

sorry. just saw this. I seem to have it fixed now

Adam Milner

@carmiac

Hi Roger! Thanks for this book, so far my read through it has been very helpful. There is one concept that I am having problems understanding related to a problem I am working on. How does the UKF deal with control inputs to the system? The system I am looking at has a fairly simple A matrix (diagonal, mostly unity), with a full B matrix and a non-linear measurement function. Does the UKF deal with this well?

Kishan

@kishb87

Does anyone know of smoothing techniques that can be used for a EKF? It looks like all the smoothing techniques in FilterPy are linear problems. Am I right?

Suresh Sharma

@sursha

Hi @rlabbe! Just getting started with your book, thanks for your work!

alimohebbi

@alimohebbi

i wonna run a code about robot motion using ekf

code are in the book

http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Python/blob/master/11-Extended-Kalman-Filters.ipynb

but get this erros

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/_lib/_util.py", line 231, in _asarray_validated
raise ValueError('object arrays are not supported')
ValueError: object arrays are not supported

what should i do?

Matthias

@maluethi

@rlabbe: I am reading through your book online and so far it has been amazing, thanks for publishing all this!
Although I did not read all chapters yet, it came to my understanding that outliers (measurements containing no information) are pretty bad for a 'standard' Kalman filter. By just searching trough the pdf version I didn't find any mention of outliers. So I was wondering if you could point me to any resources that introduce outlier handling within kalman filtering? Of course I googled but I cannot really judge the quality for a beginner of all the different results I get back...

Roger Labbe

@rlabbe

@maluethi , sorry, I haven't logged in here for a long time.

I intend to add a section on just this topic in a few day. In the meantime, I suggest looking up 'mahalanobis distance', which is a measure of how far a measurement is from the KF's prior. You can use this to 'gate' your data - discard data that is "too far away". Theory says throw away anything > 3 std, but in practice you may find 4,5, even 6 std to be a better gating distance

If you throw the data away, you just don't call update for that time period. You will thus call predict twice in a row, and your estimate will gain uncertainty because you did 2 predictions in a row

that's the general idea. The search term "kalman filter gating" is also a fruitful search.

Roger Labbe

@rlabbe

@maluethi the book is updated with a section on outliers. see chapter 8.

Matthias

@maluethi

@rlabbe Thanks a lot for letting me know. I will certainly look into the new chapter!

noemecd

@noemecd

I wish to congratulate you for your excellent book on Kalman and Bayesian filters.
It is clear, didactic and well-documented.
I had to build my very first Kalman filter in a quite complex configuration (7 state variables, strong non-linearities and very low signal to noise ratio).
Your book has brought me tremendous help in doing that - although, as a Scilab user, I have found the recourse to Python more troublesome than helpful -.
It is rare to find such a thorough, simple, user-oriented while scientifically sound presentation of the Kalman filter.
I think you are a born pedagogue.
Lots of thanks.

Miguel Oyarzun

@Miguel-O-Matic

@rlabbe I just started working through the Jupyter notebooks. Your intuitive approach to the subject matter is very refreshing. I do have a question/observation about the material in Chapter 3... I find the discussion of the product vs sum of "Gaussians" a bit confusing. It seems that you are discussing the sum of Gaussian random "variables" and the product of Gaussian probability "distributions". The sum of two independent Gaussian random variables is also Gaussian-distributed. The product of two Gaussian random variables is not, in general, Gaussian-distributed.

Miguel Oyarzun

@Miguel-O-Matic

@rlabbe I just started working through the Jupyter notebooks. Your intuitive approach to the subject matter is very refreshing. I do have a question/observation about the material in Chapter 3... I find the discussion of the product vs sum of "Gaussians" a bit confusing. It seems that you are discussing the sum of Gaussian random "variables" and the product of Gaussian probability "distributions". The sum of two independent Gaussian random variables is also Gaussian-distributed. The product of two Gaussian random variables is not, in general, Gaussian-distributed.

Having now made it through Chapter 4... I think the source of the confusion is that, in both cases, we are really talking about operations on Gaussian "distributions" rather than random "variables" . The mathematical operation involved in the "prediction" step is really a convolution, rather than a sum, of Gaussian "distributions", which can be shown to be a Gaussian "distribution" with mean and variance as described in Chapter 3. At least, that's what I think after reading Chapter 4... Looking forward to further enlightenment in the upcoming chapters... :-)

han-so1omon

@han-so1omon

Thank you for writing this book. I hope it is valuable to students, as I wish that I had it when I was a student.

Douglas Daly

@douglas-daly_gitlab

Wow - what an amazing book! You offer a very clear and conceptual approach to these topics without glossing over the foundations. And of course, presenting as Jupyter notebooks is a huge help and removes the mysteries of tuning parameters and such.

gabrielegranello

@gabrielegranello

Thank you very much for providing the library and the book, both have been of immense value for me to understand how Kalman filters work.

dangle1

@dangle1

Is there anyone here interested in forming a study group for this book? I'm working my way through it and understand it for the most part, but think studying together would make learning better.

Rachel Cohen Yeshurun

@rachelyeshurun

Wow, just amazing notebooks, hope one day to work through this. In the meantime, this notebook series is my inspiration for my own work.. Question for you @rlabbe or anyone who knows: I haven't been able to find out how to show all output on startup. I see all your notebooks when rendered on Binder too, show up with all the plots rendered, and no cell output number. It looks so clean, how do you do that??? My cells just show the code. Markdown is rendered, but code is not run, even though I ran all and saved before commit.

MichaelHay42

@MichaelHay42

Hi @Rlabbe, just starting to read your book (in chapter 1) it is FANTASTIC, i am learning so much, it is a delight! About filters yes, but also I didn't know I could run Jupyter notebooks on Azure and Binder. Very cool! THANK YOU so much!!

laurelstrelzoff

@laurelstrelzoff

Hi @rlabbe , I'm trying to implement a particle filter (SIR) like the one in chapter 12, but I'm having difficulty with it. I'm using it for bearings only tracking of multiple targets to differentiate between true and false targets, and I haven't been able to adapt that code to work without landmarks. Do you have any advice?

fanggenzaiXHBS

@fanggenzaiXHBS

Hi, @rlabbe , you call the difference between the measurement and prediction is called the residual, I don't quite agree with you. I mean the difference between the measurement and prediction is called the innovation．the difference between the measurement and posterior is called residual.

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sjphilli

@sjphilli

@rlabbe Nit: Chapter 3.2 is titled "Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation", however none of these are mentioned in 3.2. Suggest 3.2 be renamed to "Random Variables" and 3.2.1 be removed.

fsi145686

@fsi145686

@rlabbe Dear author, I have a question. If the measurement function is unknown in the state space, it is a parameter, which method can be used to estimate the measurement function?

Prashant Dandriyal

@pra-dan

Hi guys.

Prashant Dandriyal

@pra-dan

In chapter 6: Multivariate Kalman Filters, in the part

what if 𝑥=𝑥˙Δ𝑡 ? (set F00 to 0, the rest at defaults)

leads to the following plot of $𝐏=𝐅𝐏𝐅^𝖳$ :

https://imgur.com/a/UbLEJuw

But I can't get the idea behind it, I mean how is the variance for x (position) reduced to minimum ? On using 𝑥0 = 0, the resulting matrix for P is:

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Prashant Dandriyal

@pra-dan

Can anybody help ?

Prashant Dandriyal

@pra-dan

Hi @rlabbe I came across the part "Stable Computation of the Posterior Covariance" and couldn't understand how the Joseph-equation-derived-covariance mitigates a non-optimal K (Kalman gain) ? I see that to be possible only when a different method is used to compute K.

Can you please help ?

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