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Mathematics Research Report MRR95-026

An Algorithm For Kalman Filtering And Smoothing With Diagonal Input Covariance Matrices

Inge Soderkvist

Abstract: A new square-root algorithm for Kalman filtering and smoothing is derived. The new algorithm is a modification of the information filter presented by Paige and Saunders [SIAM J. Num.Anal. 12 (1977), pp. 180-193] and can be used when the input covariance matrices are diagonal. Potential ill-conditioning, caused by different sizes of the input covariances, is handled using techniques for solving weighted and constrained least squares problems. These techniques imply that the new algorithm can handle singular covariance matrices as well as singular information matrices.


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