Research Article

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

Table 2

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

FilterRMSEGaussian noiseNon-Gaussian noise
SIRAPFGPFSIRAPFGPF

ECSPFMean68.4%68.0%69.2%55.5%56.1%56.9%
Variance85.4%81.5%88.7%51.4%30.3%54.0%
CCSPFMean65.4%65.0%66.3%51.7%52.3%53.2%
Variance73.7%66.7%79.6%40.1%14.2%43.4%

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.