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the
object?
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Lower variance
= higher confidence
= higher weight
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De-Fusion
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Remember this!
Well see something similar again.
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Why?
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We have a model, so we
can compute this exactly
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Summary
All
realis#c
robo#cs
systems
suer
from
sensor
noise
This
manifests
itself
in
a
sequence
of
problems.
We
looked
at:
Es#ma#ng
a
signal
from
noise
State
es#ma#on
in
the
form
of
a
Kalman
lter
Nonlineari#es
and
non-Gaussian
distribu#ons
will
need
extensions
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Acknowledgments
Some
pictures/slides
are
adapted
from
the
following
sources:
Tutorial
by
Welch
and
Bishop
(
hsp://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/kalman/)
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