Kalman Filtering Tutorial
Kalman Filtering Tutorial
Kalman Filtering Tutorial
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The covariance of a column vector x=[x1 .. xn]’ is defined as<br />
cov( x) ≡ E[(<br />
x − x)( x − x)']<br />
∞<br />
∞<br />
= ∫ ... ∫ ( x − x)( x − x)' p( x)<br />
dx1.. dxn −∞ −∞<br />
≡<br />
7<br />
P xx<br />
and is a symmetric n by n matrix and is positive definite unless there is a linear<br />
dependence among the components of x.<br />
The (i,j) th element of Pxx is σ 2<br />
xi x j<br />
Interpreting a covariance matrix:<br />
diagonal elements are the variances, off-diagonal encode correlations.