Diffusion Maps Kalman Filter for a Class of Systems with Gradient Flows

© 1991-2012 IEEE. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric method for state estimation of high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems, which evolve according to gradient flows with isotropic diffusion. We combine diffusion maps, a manifold learning technique, with a linear Kalman filte...

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Main Authors: Shnitzer, Tal, Talmon, Ronen, Slotine, Jean-Jacques
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nonlinear Systems Laboratory
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135213
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Slotine, Jean-Jacques
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description © 1991-2012 IEEE. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric method for state estimation of high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems, which evolve according to gradient flows with isotropic diffusion. We combine diffusion maps, a manifold learning technique, with a linear Kalman filter and with concepts from Koopman operator theory. More concretely, using diffusion maps, we construct data-driven virtual state coordinates, which linearize the system model. Based on these coordinates, we devise a data-driven framework for state estimation using the Kalman filter. We demonstrate the strengths of our method with respect to both parametric and non-parametric algorithms in three tracking problems. In particular, applying the approach to actual recordings of hippocampal neural activity in rodents directly yields a representation of the position of the animals. We show that the proposed method outperforms competing non-parametric algorithms in the examined stochastic problem formulations. Additionally, we obtain results comparable to classical parametric algorithms, which, in contrast to our method, are equipped with model knowledge.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1352132023-09-26T19:58:13Z Diffusion Maps Kalman Filter for a Class of Systems with Gradient Flows Shnitzer, Tal Talmon, Ronen Slotine, Jean-Jacques Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nonlinear Systems Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering © 1991-2012 IEEE. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric method for state estimation of high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems, which evolve according to gradient flows with isotropic diffusion. We combine diffusion maps, a manifold learning technique, with a linear Kalman filter and with concepts from Koopman operator theory. More concretely, using diffusion maps, we construct data-driven virtual state coordinates, which linearize the system model. Based on these coordinates, we devise a data-driven framework for state estimation using the Kalman filter. We demonstrate the strengths of our method with respect to both parametric and non-parametric algorithms in three tracking problems. In particular, applying the approach to actual recordings of hippocampal neural activity in rodents directly yields a representation of the position of the animals. We show that the proposed method outperforms competing non-parametric algorithms in the examined stochastic problem formulations. Additionally, we obtain results comparable to classical parametric algorithms, which, in contrast to our method, are equipped with model knowledge. 2021-10-27T20:22:30Z 2021-10-27T20:22:30Z 2020 2020-08-07T15:48:59Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135213 en 10.1109/TSP.2020.2987750 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) arXiv
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Diffusion Maps Kalman Filter for a Class of Systems with Gradient Flows
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