Research Article

Improved Particle Filter Using Clustering Similarity of the State Trajectory with Application to Nonlinear Estimation: Theory, Modeling, and Applications

Table 1

Mean and variance of RMSE for five nonlinear algorithms running 100 times under both the Gaussian and non-Gaussian noise models.

Filter estimationSIRAPFGPFECSPFCCSPF

RMSE mean (Gaussian)3.47713.43683.56771.10031.2027
RMSE variance (Gaussian)0.01710.01350.02210.00250.0045
RMSE mean (non-Gaussian)4.33324.39394.47261.92732.0941
RMSE variance (non-Gaussian)0.02220.01550.02350.01080.0133

Note: SIR = sequential importance resampling; APF = auxiliary particle filter; GPF = Gaussian particle filter; ECSPF = Euclidean distance clustering similarity particle filter; CCSPF = Chebyshev distance clustering similarity particle filter; RMSE = root mean squared error.