A New Strategy for Combining Nonlinear Kalman Filters With Smooth Variable Structure Filters

Bayesian filters exemplified by the celebrated Kalman Filter (KF), and its non-linear variants rely on a fairly accurate state-space model of the system under study. To address the issue of modelling uncertainty in state estimation, the Smooth Variable Structure Filter (SVSF) was proposed in 2007. Since then, several SVSF variants have been proposed to extend its domain of applicability. In some of these algorithms, SVSF has been viewed as a complementary approach alongside the well-established nonlinear Kalman Filters. This paper seeks a general framework for SVSF formulation to unify some of the recent developments in SVSF literature under one umbrella. In this way, the SVSF variants are revisited as special cases of the proposed framework. This paper proposes a new strategy to combine SVSF filters with other nonlinear filters and puts existing SVSF filters under one umbrella. Six filters are formulated based on the proposed method of combining filters. The proposed filters relax limitations of existing SVSF variants, making the proposed filters more universal. In simulations, the new filters outperform state-of-the-art nonlinear KFs and some existing SVSF filters. To demonstrate the merits of the proposed framework, the new filters are applied to target tracking and are comparatively evaluated.

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A Data Compression Strategy for the Efficient Uncertainty Quantification of Time-Domain Circuit Responses

This paper presents an innovative modeling strategy for the construction of efficient and compact surrogate models for the uncertainty quantification of time-domain responses of digital links. The proposed approach relies on a two-step methodology. First, the initial dataset of available training responses is compressed via principal component analysis (PCA). Then, the compressed dataset is used to train compact surrogate models for the reduced PCA variables using advanced techniques for uncertainty quantification and parametric macromodeling. Specifically, in this work sparse polynomial chaos expansion and least-square support-vector machine regression are used, although the proposed methodology is general and applicable to any surrogate modeling strategy. The preliminary compression allows limiting the number and complexity of the surrogate models, thus leading to a substantial improvement in the efficiency. The feasibility and performance of the proposed approach are investigated by means of two digital link designs with 54 and 115 uncertain parameters, respectively.

Published in the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society Section within IEEE Access.

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