Imagine you are trying to track the position of a speeding car using a GPS. Your GPS device updates every second, but the reading is never perfect—it jumps around by a few meters due to atmospheric interference or urban canyons. If you rely solely on the GPS, your tracking line will look jagged and erratic.
% True system: car moves with velocity 1 m/s dt = 0.1; % time step (seconds) t = 0:dt:10; % time vector true_position = t; % true position (no noise)Happy filtering!
fprintf('RMS Error of Raw Measurements: %.2f meters\n', error_measurements); fprintf('RMS Error of Kalman Filter: %.2f meters\n', error_kalman);Kalman Filter for Beginners: From Theory to MATLAB
% Simulate noisy measurements (e.g., GPS error) measurement_noise = 0.5; measurements = true_position + measurement_noise * randn(size(t)); % Simulate noisy measurements (e
The algorithm "corrects" its prediction using a new, noisy measurement. Compute Kalman Gain Update State Estimate Update Error Covariance : Measurement matrix. : Measurement noise covariance. : Actual measurement. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3. MATLAB Implementation Examples The algorithm "corrects" its prediction using a new,