D. Fox

KLD-Sampling: Adaptive Particle Filters

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14 (NIPS-01)


 

Abstract

Over the last years, particle filters have been applied with great success to a variety of state estimation problems. We present a statistical approach to increasing the efficiency of particle filters by adapting the size of sample sets on-the-fly. The key idea of the KLD-sampling method is to bound the approximation error introduced by the sample-based representation of the particle filter. The name KLD-sampling is due to the fact that we measure the approximation error by the Kullback-Leibler distance. Our adaptation approach chooses a small number of samples if the density is focused on a small part of the state space, and it chooses a large number of samples if the state uncertainty is high. Both the implementation and computation overhead of this approach are small. Extensive experiments using mobile robot localization as a test application show that our approach yields drastic improvements over particle filters with fixed sample set sizes and over a previously introduced adaptation technique.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Fox01KLD,
  AUTHOR            = {Fox, D.},
  TITLE                  = {KLD-Sampling: Adaptive Particle Filters},
  YEAR                   = {2001},
  BOOKTITLE     = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14},
  PUBLISHER      = {MIT Press}
}
 


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