The posterior Cramer-Rao lower bound (PCRLB) derived in [1] provides a bound on the mean square error (MSE) obtained with any nonlinear state filter. Computing the PCRLB involves solving complex, multi-dimensional expectations, which do not lend themselves to an easy analytical solution. Furthermore, any attempt to approximate it using numerical or simulation-based approaches require a priori access to the true states, which may not be available, except in simulations or in carefully designed experiments. To allow recursive approximation of the PCRLB when the states are hidden or unmeasured, a new approach based on sequential Monte-Carlo (SMC) or particle filters (PFs) is proposed. The approach uses SMC methods to estimate the hidden states using a sequence of the available sensor measurements. The developed method is general and can be used to approximate the PCRLB in nonlinear systems with non-Gaussian state and sensor noise. The efficacy of the developed method is illustrated on two simulation examples, including a practical problem of ballistic target tracking at reentry phase.
A Particle Filter Approach to Approximate Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound: The Case of Hidden States
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ; 49 , 4 ; 2478-2495
2013-10-01
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