Abstract

Traditional cubature Kalman filter (CKF) is a preferable tool for the inertial navigation system (INS)/global positioning system (GPS) integration under Gaussian noises. The CKF, however, may provide a significantly biased estimate when the INS/GPS system suffers from complex non-Gaussian disturbances. To address this issue, a robust nonlinear Kalman filter referred to as cubature Kalman filter under minimum error entropy with fiducial points (MEEF-CKF) is proposed.

The MEEF-CKF behaves a strong robustness against complex non-Gaussian noises by operating several major steps, i.e., regression model construction, robust state estimation and free parameters optimization. More concretely, a regression model is constructed with the consideration of residual error caused by linearizing a nonlinear function at the first step. The MEEF-CKF is then developed by solving an optimization problem based on minimum error entropy with fiducial points (MEEF) under the framework of the regression model. In the MEEF-CKF, a novel optimization approach is provided for the purpose of determining free parameters adaptively.

In addition, the computational complexity and convergence analyses of the MEEF-CKF are conducted for demonstrating the calculational burden and convergence characteristic. The enhanced robustness of the MEEF-CKF is demonstrated by Monte Carlo simulations on the application of a target tracking with INS/GPS integration under complex non-Gaussian noises.